UNLV LIBRARY Africa. MEDIA RESOURCES CATALOG National Geographic Video (2001) ETHNIC STUDIES Presents Africa through the eyes of its Summer 2011 people, including the personal stories of those who shape its future A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs & Freedom. 1. Savanna homecoming ; Desert California Newsreel (1996) odyssey – Biography of African-American labor 2. Voices of the forest ; Mountains of leader, journalist, and civil rights activist, A. faith Philip Randolph. 3. Love in the Sahel ; Restless waters Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 27 min.) 4. Leopards of Zanzibar ; Southern E 185.97 R27 A62 treasures – 5. The making of Africa A Time For Burning. 5 Videocassettes (ca. 540 min.) Docurama (2005) DT12.25 .A37 2001 1-5 The pastor of an all-white Lutheran church in Omaha, Nebraska tries to get his Africa: Who is to Blame? congregation to reach out to their fellow Films for the Humanities & Sciences black Lutherans, only to find a wall of (2006) resistance among his church. Former President of Ghana Jerry 1 videodisc (ca. 58 min.) Rawlings and Kenyan law student June E185.61 .T56 2005 Arunga travel through Tanzania and Rwanda, witnessing the economic and About Baghdad. social situations of the people they meet and Arab Film Distribution (2004) considering what measures would improve In July 2003 Sinan Antoon, an exiled life for the people of Africa generally. Iraqi writer and poet, returned to Baghdad to 1 videodisc (61 min.) see what has become of his city after wars, HC800 .A58 2006 sanctions, decades of oppression and violence, and now occupation. Antoon takes African American Gender Roles. us on a journey exploring what Iraqis think Insight Media (1994) and feel about the post-war situation and the In a classroom lecture, Dr. Polly complex relationship between the US and Radosh describes how gender role patterns Iraq. established in slavery persisted after slavery 1 videodisc (90 min.) was abolished. DS79.76 .A26 2004 Video Cassette ( 1 hr) E 443 A47 Adelante Mujeres! Women Make Movies (1992) African American Lives. Focuses on the history of Mexican- PBS Home Video (2006) American/Chicana women from the Spanish Uses genealogy, oral histories, family invasion to the present. stories and DNA to trace roots of several Video Cassette ( 30 min.) accomplished African Americans down E184.M5 A64 1996 through American history and back to Africa. 1 videodisc (ca. 240 min.) Adopted: We Can Do Better. E185.96 .A4462 2006 Point Made Films, c2008 "Adopted reveals the grit rather than the glamour of transracial adoption. First- time director Barb Lee goes deep into the intimate lives of two well-meaning families and shows us the subtle challenges they face. The results are riveting, unpredictable and telling"--Publisher's website. 2 videodiscs (212 min.) HV875.64 .A36 2008

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African Americans on the Comstock. The Africans. Nev. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, 2002 PBS (1987) Features the research from an 1. The Nature of a Continent: examines archaeological excavation in 2000 of the Africa as the birthplace of human kind and former Boston Saloon, located underneath discusses the impact of geography on what is now the parking lot of the Bucket of African history. Blood Saloon in Virginia City. On-camera 2. A Legacy of Lifestyles: explores how host Gwen Clancy interviews lead African contemporary lifestyles are archaeologist Dr. Kelly Dixon about the influenced by indigenous, Islamic and artifacts and their meaning, volunteer Dan Western factors. Urriola about his painstaking work, Dr. Don 3. New Gods: examines the factors that Hardesty, who directed the field school, and influence religion in Africa. Historic Preservation Officer Ron James 4. Tools of Exploitation: contrasts the about the State's mission in supporting impact of the West on Africa and the impact archeology. of Africa on the development of the West. 1 videodisc (28 min.) Looks at the manner in which Africa's F849.V8 A37 2002 human and natural resources have been exploited. 5. New Conflict: explores the tensions inherent in the juxtaposition of the three heritages. 6. In Search of Stability: studies several means of governing and new social orders. 7. A Garden of Eden in Decay? identifies the problems of a continent that produces what it does not consume and consumes what it does not produce. 8. A Clash of Cultures: shows the coexistence of many African traditions and modern life and the conflicts and compromises that emerge from the mixing of cultures. 9. Global Africa: illustrates African contributions to contemporary culture and examines the continuing influence of the superpowers on the affairs of the continent. 9 Video Cassettes ( 1 hr. ea.) Guide (72 p.) DT 14 A572 Pt. 1-9

Africans in America. PBS (1998) Pt. 1: Terrible Transformation 1450-1750 Pt. 2: Revolution: 1750-1805 Pt. 3: Brotherly Love 1791-1831 Pt. 4: Judgment Day 1831-1865 4 Video Cassettes (90 min. each) Guide E 441 A32 pt. 1-4

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Africans in America: America's Journey Alice Walker. Through Slavery. Films for the Humanities (1993) WGBH Educational Foundation (2006) Alice Walker shares with us her A four part series portraying the remarkable spiritual journey from a struggles of the African people in America. sharecropping childhood in rural Georgia to This series exposes the truth through the peace and creativity of her present surprising revelations, dramatic recreations, retreat in Northern California. She reads rare archival photography, riveting first- from her poetry and discusses contemporary person accounts and defines the reality of America with an anger and urgency rooted slaver's past through insightful commentary. in an abiding optimism. Disc 1. Terrible transformation, 1450- Video Cassette ( 30 min.) 1750 ; Revolution, 1750-1805 PS 3573 A425 Z463 Disc 2. Brotherly love, 1791-1831 ; Judgment day, 1831-1865 All Power to the People. 2 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) Filmakers Library (1996) E441 .A32 2006 Provides the historical context for the establishment of the Black Panther Party for Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War. Self Defense in the mid 1960's. A&E Television Networks (2007) Video Cassette ( 1 hr 55 min) In 1866, the year immediately E 185.615 A65 following the end of the war, America was supposed to be reuniting, healing its All Under Heaven. wounds, and moving past years of civil Long Bow Group (1984) unrest. However, a closer look into this An intimate look at daily life in Long historic time reveals a sinister snapshot of a Bow, a village about 400 miles southwest of discordant nation caught in the midst of Beijing. Shows how a traditional way of life deadly race riots and angry insurgencies. has persisted and altered with political Examines the disturbing reality behind the changes of the last 40 years, particularly murder, terrorism, and chaos that marked collectivization and decollectivization. the uncertain period of Reconstruction in Video Cassette ( 58 min.) America. Guide 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) S522 C6 A45 E185.2 .A37 2007 All White in Barking. Aghueghniighmi - At the Time of Icarus Films, 2007 Whaling. "Through revealing interviews, Documentary Educational Resources alternately shocking and humorous, this (2005) documentary profile of a white working-class "Gambell, Alaska, is an Eskimo community east of London offers a timely village of 400 people located on St. snapshot of an increasingly multiracial Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, 200 Britain. The racial composition of Barking is miles from the mainland and 45 miles from in rapid flux, with immigrants from Africa, the Siberian Coast. The film was made in Asia, the Caribbean and the Balkans arriving April, 1974 during the Island's whaling and many longtime white residents leaving... season. The people of Gambell decided [Reveals] both the persistence and the what should be presented in this film, to gradual undermining of racial and ethnic produce a record of life in the community stereotypes"—Container from the perspective of its own people."-- 1 videodisc (73 min.) opening frames. DA676.9.A1 A45 2007 1 videodisc (39 min.) E99.E7 A817 2005

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Amerasians. America in Black and White. Cinema Guild, [1998?] ABC News (1996) This documentary film consists of Ted Koppel hosts a five-day series of interviews with several of the more 100,000 broadcasts dealing with issues of racism. children of U.S. soldiers born to Vietnamese 1: The Philadelphia Story (42 min.) mothers during the Vietnam War. The 2: How Much is White Skin Worth? Amerasians portrayed in the film have (23 min.) moved to the United States under the 3: The Color Line and the Bus Line Amerasian homecoming act of 1987, which (23 min.) permitted the children of American soldiers 4: What About Black Racism? to immigrate to the United States with their (22 min.) immediate relatives. 5: The Search for Common Ground 1 videocassette (52 min.) (23 min.) DS556.45.A43 A44 1998 5 Video Cassettes E 185.615 A66 pt. 1-5 America Beyond the Color Line. PBS Home Video, [2005] America in Black and White: The Secret Gates travels to the east coast, the Game. deep South, inner city Chicago, and ABC News Hollywood to investigate modern Black In 1944, the all black team from North America and interview influential Americans Carolina College for Negroes and the all including Colin Powell, Quincy Jones, white team from Duke University played a Samuel L. Jackson, Alicia Keys, Maya secret, illegal basketball game. Nightline Angelou, Willie Herenton and others chronicles the infraction of the Jim Crow 1 videodisc (ca. 225 min.) Laws, and interviews members of both E185.615 .A655 2005 teams. Video Cassette ( 21 min.) America Goes to War: Mood Indigo: GV706.32 .S42 1997 Blacks & Whites. PBS (1990) America: The New Immigrants. Newsreels show that the American Benchmark Media, [2007?] home front is as racially segregated as the Discusses how the new wave of Armed Forces. Black civilians back the war immigrants from Asian, Latin American and effort and black servicemen distinguish Islamic countries will change the United themselves overseas. States. Video Cassette ( 30 min.) 2 videodiscs (50 min.) + 1 guide (3 p.) D 810 R3 M55 JV6455 .A44 2007

America: The New Immigrants. America's Black Warriors : Two Wars to Benchmark Media (1997) Win. Discusses how the new wave of A&E Television Networks (1998) immigrants from Asia, Latin America and The video features numerous African- Islamic countries will change the U.S. American WWII veterans, who speak with Pt. 1. The people and the economics brutal honesty about the prejudice they (28 min.) encountered and the battles they fought. Pt. 2. Social impact and political Learn of the remarkable achievements of power (24 min.) units like the Tuskegee Airmen, who earned 2 Video Cassettes the respect of their German adversaries in JV 6455 A44 pt. 1-2 the skies over Italy and Sicily, and discover how the advances made in World War II paved the way for the armed forces to become a model of successful integration for the rest of America. 1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) E185.63 .A485 1998

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America's Immigration Debate. American History X. Films for the Humanities & Sciences New Line Home Video (1999) (2005) "Derek Vinyard, the charismatic Examines the pro and con views of leader of a group of young white the American immigration debate. Studies supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, the isolation of ethnic communities, the hate-driven murder. Upon his release, shifting of racial definitions, and America's ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, lack of an infrastructure to support immigrant Derek realizes he must save his younger integration. brother, Danny from a similar fate."— 1 videodisc (26 min.) Container. JV6483 .A44 2005 1 videodisc (119 min.) PN1997.85 A47 1999 America's Indian Heritage: Rediscovering Columbus [Ohio]. Ancestors. Films for the Humanities (1991) PBS (1997) Ancient North Americans built over Focuses on the positive impact family half a million prehistoric earthworks, many history can have on individuals and families. larger than the pyramids. This program ties 1: Getting Started together the mysterious but real connections 2: Looking at Home between these ancient moundbuilders, the 3: Gathering Family Stories Mayas of Mesoamerica and more 4: The Paper Trail contemporary North Americans. 5: Libraries and Archives Video Cassette ( 56 min.) 6: Military and Census Records E 77.94 R63 7: African American Families 8: Medical Heritage America's Multicultural Heritage. 9: High-Tech Help EVN 10: Leaving a Legacy Introduces the contributions that 10 Video Cassettes ( 30 min. ea) different cultures offer our nation. Observes Guide (32 p.) areas with a high concentration of a CS 16 A53 episodes 1-10 particular ethnic group. Video Cassette (26 min.) Ancestors in the Americas. E 184 A1 A64 Center for Educational Telecommunications (1998) American Gypsy. Pt. 1: Coolies, Sailors, Settlers University of California Extension Center Pt. 2: Chinese in the Frontier West. for Media and Independent Learning 2 Video Cassettes ( 2 hr.) America is home to one million E 29 O6 A53 pt. 1-2 Gypsies, or Rom, whose rich culture has long been mysterious to outsiders. A Ancient Drugs. flamboyant Romani leader invites the viewer New Video Group (1998) into this world when it comes under treat. He Since mankind's beginning, in every leads us through the history of his people civilization, human beings have found ways through civil rights courts, Las Vegas to alter their consciousness in search of casinos and beyond. something "greater" than everyday reality. Video Cassette ( 1 hr 20 min.) This film delves into mankind's psyche in DX201 .A44 1999 search of the key to our pervasive drive to experience something "beyond." Historians and spiritualists explore the ancient rituals of cultures worldwide that have sought visions and truth through altered consciousness 1 Video Cassette (50 min.) BL65.D7 A53 1998

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Ancient Indian Cultures of Northern The Antebellum South. Arizona. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Holiday Video Library [2009] Explores the cultural history and This program gives a deeper landscapes of five National Monuments in understanding of the steadily growing divide northern Arizona: Sunset Crater, Wupatki, between the North and the South. It also Walnut Canyon, Montezuma Castle and discusses the contributions of westward Tuzigoot. expansion, the Abolitionist movement, and Video Cassette ( 30 min.) John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at E 99 S547 A53 Harpers Ferry to America's progress toward war. Ancient Pueblo People: The Anasazi. 1 videodisc (19 min.) Ambrose Video Pub., c2007 E468 .A57 2009 "They stand today much as their builders left them 500 years ago. These are Anti-semitism in the 21st Century: The the cities of the Anasazi, the ancient Pueblo Resurgence. people of the four corners region of the Films for the Humanites & Sciences, western United States. Their history is the c2007 history how a civilization, against all odds, Through extraordinary and disturbing became so successful at agriculture they archival footage, interviews with leading were able to produce a leisure society experts, and bold man-on-the street capable of not only building these incredible interviews, The Resurgence weaves cities, but also producing some of the together the past and the present to explore greatest pottery, rock art and trading the evolution and rebirth of an age-old networks the world has ever seen. How the prejudice. Anasazi did this with a social organization 1 videodisc (58 min.) not governed by kings or queens or other DS145 .A643 2007 hierarchical rulers is one of the great mysteries of ancient history"—Container Apartheid Part V. 1 videodisc (ca. 30 min.) PBS (1987) E99.P9 A532 2007 Details meeting of representatives of the African National Conference, who are The Angry Eye. rebels in exile, and an Afrikaner delegation California Newsreel (2004) at a conference in Senegal. Documentary on Jane Elliott's blue- Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) eyed/brown-eyed exercise in discrimination DT 1056 A63 involving college students in the United States forced to experience racist treatment Apocalypse! minorities have received for years. PBS Home Video, c1999 1 videodisc (35 min.) Discusses the Book of Revelation, BF575.P9 A54 2004 why it lends itself to many interpretations, and what it reveals. Anne Wortham. 1 Video Cassette (117 min.) PBS (1989) BS2825.3 A66 1999 Anne Wortham stands apart in her criticism of the civil rights movement and its Arab Americans. leaders for what she says is the promotion Schlessinger (1993) of reverse racism and the welfare state. Video on the history of Arab Talks about affirmative action, busing and Americans that is one of a 15-part series other issues concerning black Americans. that celebrates the heritage of different Video Cassette (57 min.) cultural groups by tracing the history of their E 185.615 A685 emigration to North America. Adapted from the "Peoples of North America" series of books by Chelsea House Publishers. Video Cassette ( 30 min.) E 184 A65 A48

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Arab & Jew: Return to the Promised Asian-American Cultures. Land. Insight Media (1992) PBS Home Video (2002) Examines the similarities and Combining new material with differences between groups of Asians. interviews that appeared in the original Explains why Asian Americans are often program, "Arab & Jew : wounded spirits in a called the "model American minority group." promised land" this documentary examines Illuminates problems between first and the tension between Arabs and Jews living second generations of Asian-Americans. within lands under jurisdiction of the Israeli Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) state, including the West Bank and the Gaza E 184 O6 A84 Strip, and explores their prejudices, stereotypes, and interactions. The Asianization of America. Distributed by PBS Home Video Films for the Humanities (199?) (2002) Summary in Sociology section. DS119.76 .A65 2002 Video Cassette ( 26 min.) E 184 O6 A87 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. As Long as I Remember. PBS (198?) Laura Varela, 2009 Focuses on how the perceptions that "Examines the personal toll and Arabs and Jews have of one another have legacy of the Vietnam War on three South been shaped by both history and current Texas artists: visual artist Juan Farias, events. A portrayal of the Arab-Israeli author Michael Rodriguez and conflict in human terms. Illuminates poet/performance artist Eduardo Garza"— universal themes of prejudice and Container. intolerance that can be found in all cultures. 1 videodisc (54 min.) 1. History & Claims to the Land. DS559.73.U6 A7 2009 2. War, Terrorism & Military Occupation. 3. Stereotypes and Prejudice. At the River I Stand. 4. Attempts to Overcome Bigotry & California Newsreel (1993) Teach Tolerance. Reconstructs the two eventful months 2 Video Cassettes ( 1 hr. each) in the Spring of 1968 which led to the tragic Teacher's Guide (21 p.) death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the DS 119.7 A65 pt. 1-2 climax of the Civil Rights Movement. Video Cassette ( 56 min.) Are We Different? HD 5325 S2572 1968 M462 Filmakers Library African American students articulate The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. the issues of race, racism and race Sony Wonder, [2002?] relations. The students question why Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her "blackness" is fashionable and talk about 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement black culture. heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, Video Cassette ( 27 min.) recounts her memories of the black E 185.625 A74 experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for Are You A Racist? soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the Penn State Audio-Visual Services (1987) current and turbulent. Four white "racists" and four black 1 videodisc (110 min.) "victims of racism" were selected to take PS3557.A355 A982 2002 part in an unusual experiment. For five days the eight volunteers were sequestered in an isolated house to explore the issue of racism by talking about their own experiences. Highlights the discussions. Video Cassette ( 49 min.) HT 1521 A73

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Autumn Gem. Babakiueria. San Francisco Film Society, 2009 Landmark Media (1986) This documentary explores the A satire that reverses the roles of the extraordinary life of the Chinese colonizer and the colonized by imagining revolutionary heroine and women's rights what it would be like if a fleet of black activist Qiu Jin (1875-1907). During the settlers arrived to colonize an area inhabited reign of the last dynasty in China, Qiu Jin by white natives. Looks at ethnic/racial boldly challenged traditional gender roles relations and attitudes, in terms of history and demanded equal rights and and current mind set. opportunities for women. At a time when Video Cassette (30 min.) women's lives were often marked by PN 1997.85 B18 repressive practices such as footbinding, arranged marriages, and denial of Back to Bataan Beach. education, she envisioned a future where NAATA (1995) women would free themselves from the Deploys Hollywood movie archetypes confines of tradition and emerge as strong to tell a post-punk version of the search for and active citizens of a new and modern Filipino identity. nation. Includes dramatic reenactments and Video Cassette ( 10 min.) interviews with family members and PN 1997.85 B33 academics. 1 videodisc (56 min.) Baadassss Cinema. DS764.23.C49 Q25 2009 Docurama : Distributed by New Video (2002) An Ayatollah Speaks. Documentary on the explosion of Films for the Humanities & blaxploitation films in the early 70s. Includes Sciences (2003) footage from movies such as Superfly, "Ayatollah Mahdi Hadavi Tehrani, on Shaft, and Sweet Sweetback's baad assss pilgrimage at Mecca, seeks to dispel popular song and interviews with those who had a American misconceptions of his religion and part in that film genre such as Richard life in his homeland, Iran."—Container. Roundtree, Quentin Tarantino, and Pam 1 videodisc (23 min.) Grier. BP63.I7 A83 2003 Video Cassette (56 min) PN1995.9.N4 B32 2002 The Aztec Empire. The History Channel (1997) Balseros. Discusses who the Aztecs were Docurama (2002) and new discoveries about their civilization, Account of seven Cuban refugees their empire that stretched through Mexico who risked everything in pursuit of the to Guatemala, and why they were easily American Dream. Follows a lively group of conquered by the Spanish explorers. Also rafters, many of whom were detained at the shows the excavations at the Temple of Guantanamo naval base before being Tenochitlan and discusses how the Aztecs' allowed onto American soil. influence is still felt in Mexico today. 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) 1 Video Cassette (50 min.) E184.C97 B34 2005 F1219.73 .A97 1997 Banesa's Courtyard: Village Women of Bangladesh. CRM Film Tells the story of the lives of women in the rural villages of Bangladesh. Describes the traditions which bind the women to their families and to the agriculture of the region. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) HQ 1075.5 B3 U54

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Banished. Between Two Worlds: A Documentary. California Newsreel, 2007 University of California Extension Center "Recounts the forgotten history of for Media and Independent Learning, racial cleansing in America, when thousands (1998) of African Americans were driven from their This documentary examines the homes and communities by violent racist difficulties experienced by first generation mobs in the late 19th and early 20th Asian American youth who struggle with centuries... The film places these events in "living in two worlds"--the Asian family the context of present day race relations, by culture and the American culture. Chinese, following three concrete cases of towns that Japanese, and Korean American young remain all-white to this day: Forsyth County, adults and members of their families Georgia; Pierce City, Missouri; and Harrison, expound upon the generational and cultural Arkansas" – Container. gaps existing in Asian American families and 1 videodisc (84 min.) stereotypical perceptions of Asians in E185.86 .B36 2007 American society 1 Video Cassette (29 min.) Battle for the Holy Land. E184.A75 B47 1998 PBS Video (2002) Highlights the strategies and violence Beyond Black and White. related to the war between the Israelis and Women Make Movies Palestinians. Presents a personal exploration of 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) Nisma Zaman's bicultural heritage in which DS119.76 .B37 2002 she relates her experiences to those of five other women of various biracial Becoming American. backgrounds. New Day Films (1983) Video Cassette ( 26 min) Documents the adaptation of a E184.A1 B47 1995 Hmong refugee family from northern Laos to life in America, where everything is culturally Beyond Black and White : Affirmative alien and everyone is a stranger. Action in America. Incorporates archival footage of the family's Films for the Humanities (2000) heritage into views of the daily encounters All sides in the affirmative action that the members have with foreign debate say that they believe in the obstacles. Constitutional right to equality regarding 1 Video Cassette (59 min.) + 1 guide race, creed and sex, but they bring very ([6] p.) different interpretations to what that means. E184.H55 B42 1983 A distinguished panel of experts discuss this issue. The Best Place to Live. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Skylight Films (1982) HF5549.5.A34 B48 2000 A documentary about the changing lives and feelings of members of a Hmong Beyond Hate: The Heart of Hatred. community that has been living for five years Films for the Humanities (1997) in Providence, Rhode Island. Conversations with a variety of people 1 videocassette (55 min.) who explore the heart of hatred. A LA gang E184.H55 B47 1982 member, a white supremacist leader, a former Israeli soldier, high school students, and the wife of Medgar Evers discuss their feelings and use of hate. Video Cassette ( 1 hr 30 min.) BF 575 H3 B48

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Beyond Hate: Heart of Hatred. The Birth of a Nation. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Image Entertainment (1998) (1997 Re-issue. Edited from 90 to 52 D.W. Griffith’s epic story of the Civil minutes) War as seen through the lives of two Features conversations with a variety families is a controversial classic of film of people who have explored the heart of history. hatred, including a Los Angeles gang DVD (187 min.) member, a white supremacist leader, a PN1997.85 .B47 1998 former Israeli soldier, Bensonhurst, N.J. high school students, and Myrlie Evers, widow of Birthwrite: Growing Up Hispanic. slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Cinema Guild (1989) Video Cassette ( 52 min) Examines the work of several BF 575 H3 B482 Hispanic-American writers and how their poems, short stories and novels reflect what Bharati Mukherjee: Conquering America. it means and what it is like to grow up Films for the Humanities (1994) Hispanic in America. Bharati Mukherjee discusses Video Cassette ( 57 min.) America's Asian immigrants and the PS 153 H56 B57 struggles of the enculturation process. Video Cassette ( 30 min.) Bitter Cane. E 184 O6 B44 Cinema Guild (1983) Examines the history of Haiti, from the Biculturalism and Acculturation Among 1804 revolution to the occupation by U.S. Latinos. Marines (1915-34), and the repressive Films for the Humanities (1992) Duvalier regimes of "Papa Doc" and "Baby Examines the question of which part Doc". Reveals the workings of the semi- of their culture Latinos feel they should keep feudal agricultural system, unemployment in and leave behind. Explores commonly held the U.S. and the ocean voyage of Haitian beliefs and misperceptions about who refugees. Latinos are in the U.S. and probes the Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 15 min.) relationship between ethnic identity and F 1921 B57 entrepreneurial success in the U.S. marketplace. Black Americans of Achievement. Video Cassette ( 28 min.) Schlessinger Prod. (1992) E 184 S75 B52 George Washington Carver S 417 C3 G45 Bill Cosby On Prejudice. Frederick Douglass E 449 D75 F72 Pyramid (19??) Jesse Jackson E 840.8 J35 J47 Acting as the nation's number bigot, Martin Luther King Jr. E 185.97 K5 M34 Bill Cosby delivers a monologue on racial, Thurgood Marshall KF 8745 M34 T482 religious, and sexual prejudices. Colin Powell E 840.5 P68 C64 Video Cassette ( 27 min.) Jackie Robinson GV 865 R6 J32 BF 575 P9 B55 Sojourner Truth E 449 T83 S63 Harriet Tubman E 449 T85 H37 Birth of a Nation. Madam C.J. Walker E 185.97 W25 M33 Kino on Video (1992) Booker T. Washington D.W. Griffith’s story of two families, E 189.97 W4 B64 one northern and one southern, during and Malcolm X E 185.97 L5 M34 after the Civil War. Controversial for heroic 12 Video Cassettes ( 30 min. ea.) portrayal of Ku Klux Klan and a vicious portrayal of African Americans. 2 Videocassettes (/1”, 3 hrs. 37 min) PN1997.85 .B47 1992

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Black Confederates: The Forgotten Men Blacking Up. in Gray. California Newsreel, 2010 Desert Rose Productions (2002) "Hip-Hop was created by urban youth Discusses the black men, women and of color more than 30 years ago amid racial children who fought for the Confederacy oppression and economic marginalization. It during the Civil War. has moved beyond that specific community E540.N3 B56 2002 and been embraced by young people worldwide, elevating it to a global youth The Black Elderly. culture. The ambitious and hard-hitting National Public Radio (1981) documentary Blacking Up: hip-hop's remix As a "double minority", elderly blacks of race and identity looks at the popularity of have a special story to tell. Three retired hip-hop among America's white youth. It blacks discuss their childhoods, families, asks whether white identification is rooted in careers, and coping with being black in admiration and a desire to transcend race or America. if it is merely a new chapter in the long Cassette (30 min.) continuum of stereotyping, mimicry and HQ 1064 U5 B42 cultural appropriation? Does it reflect a new face of racial understanding in white The Black Experience in the Silver State. America or does it reinforce an ugly history? KNPB (1993) Against the unique backdrop of american Traces the growth of black popular music, Blacking up explores racial communities in Nevada and the struggle for identity in U.S. society. The film artfully civil rights in the state. Includes archival draws parallels between the white hip-hop photos and film. fan and previous incarnations of white Video Cassette ( 58 min.) appropriation from blackface performer Al E 185.93 N52 B53 Jolson to mainstream artists like Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones and Eminem. It Black History Month 1992. interweaves portraits of white hip-hop artists National Humanities Center (1992) and fans with insightful commentary by Features interviews with scholars of African American cultural critics such as Afro-American studies in the U.S. on race in Amiri Baraka, Nelson George, Greg Tate, U.S. culture and multiculturalism in U.S. comedian Paul Mooney and hip-hop figures society and education. Chuck D., Russell Simmons, M1 of Dead 2 Cassettes Prez, and DJ Kool Herc"—Container E 185.625 B557 tape 1-2 1 videodisc (57 min.) ML3918.R37 B53 2010

Black Is... Black Ain't. California Newsreel (1995) Scholars, artists, and ordinary African Americans recall their struggles to discover a definition of "blackness". Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 26 min.) E 185.625 B558

Black Islam. National Public Radio (1984) Looks at the ideology of Black Muslims and the subsequent schism in the Nation of Islam since the 1970s. Cassette (Side 1, 30 min.) BP 50 W67 pt. 6

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Black Pioneers in American History. Blood in the Face. Caedmon (1970?-1972) First Run/Icarus Films (1991) Autobiographical narratives of Frederick Documents behind-the-scenes Douglass, Charlotte Forten, Susan King activities and philosophies of members of Taylor, Nat Love, Mary Church Terrell, the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan movement, Nazi W.E.B. Du Bois, Josiah Henson, and William skinheads and Neo-Nazis. Parker. Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 17 min.) 2 Cassettes E 184 A1 B56 E 185.96 B5 The Blood of Yingzhou District. Black, White and Angry. Distributed by the Cinema Guild, c2006 Films for the Humanities (1996) Documentary on the AIDS epidemic Examines these topics: blacks and in rural China focusing on one year in the life whites at work; blacks and whites in their of a young boy with AIDS whose parents communities; myths about blacks and have died of the disease. Looks at how whites; the role politics and politicians play people living with the disease are in issues affecting the two; what the future ostracized. Shows how economic realities holds for the delicate relationship between force many of the population into selling blacks and whites in America. their blood to make ends meet, a practice Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 17 min.) that can expose them to unsafe medical E 185.61 B597 practices that can expose them to the virus. 1 videodisc (40 min.) Black Wings: The American Black in RA643.86.C6 B56 2006 Aviation. National Air and Space Museum, Bloodlines & Bridges: The African Smithsonian Institute [198-?] Connection. Details the opportunities, the PBS (1986) achievements of black military pilots, and Marian Crawford, an orphan the expanded role blacks have played in searching for her family lineage, traces her general aviation and aerospace since 1945. roots back to Africa. 1 videocassette (18 min.) Video Cassette ( 30 min.) TL521 .B53 1980z E 575 N4 B56

Blacks and the Constitution. The Bloods of Nam. PBS (1987) PBS (1986) Examines the historical treatment of Blacks represented 23% of the total blacks with regard to the U.S. Constitution. casualties in the Vietnam War. Follows the Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) lives of black soldiers who fought against JK 1924 B63 discrimination in the army and disillusionment when they returned home. Blink. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Berkeley Media, (2000) DS 559.8 B55 B56 Once a fanatical rising star in the white supremacist movement, Greg Blue Collar & Buddha. Winthrow grapples with a legacy of hatred Siegel Prod. handed down across generations. The film Documents local attitudes toward reveals how class divisions are masked by Laotian refugees living in Rockford, Ill. racial conflict and follows Winthrow as he Raises issues related to acculturation. grapples with his own redemption from a Resettlement is complicated by rising heritage of violence. tensions with neighbors. Video Cassette ( 58 min) Video Cassette ( 57 min.) E184.A1 B557 2000b E 184 L27B58

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Blue Gold: World Water Wars. Bontoc Eulogy: A Film. Purple Turtle Films 2010 Cinema Guild (1995) "Wars of the future will be fought over Docudrama that examines the Filipino water, as they are today over oil, as the experience at the 1904 St. Louis World's source of all life enters the global fair. The film focuses on the filmmaker's marketplace and political arena. Corporate grandfather, an Igorot warrior, one of the giants, private investors, and corrupt 1,100 tribal natives displayed as governments vie for control of our dwindling anthropological 'specimens' in the Philippine fresh water supply, prompting protests, village exhibit lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens 1 Video Cassette (56 min.) fighting for the right to survive. Past E184.F4 B65 1995 civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Will ours too?"—Container Booker T. Washington - The Life & 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) Legacy. HD1691 .B58 2010 National Audio Visual Center (1982) Traces the life of Booker T. La Boda = The Wedding. Washington, emphasizing his stewardship of Women Make Movie (2002) Tuskegee Institute. Includes historical Filmed in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, in photographs of the Reconstruction period Mission, Texas and Shafter, California, this 1 videocassette (32 min.) movie follows the life of a migrant E 185.97 W4 B66 1982 community, primarily through the eyes of Elizabeth, whose wedding to Artemio Born Into Brothels. concludes the documentary. Thinkfilm, [2005] (2004) 1 Video Cassette (54 min.) While living in the red light district of E184.M5 B58 2002 Calcutta, documenting life in the brothels, New York-based photographer Zana Briski The Bombing of West Philly. embarked on a project by which she gave PBS (1987) cameras to the children of prostitutes and In 1983, a small violent black urban taught them photography, awakening within cult known as MOVE began a campaign of them hidden talent and creativity. confrontations with their neighbors. 1 videodisc (83 min.) Retraces the history of the MOVE HQ240.C3 B67 2005 revolutionary movement and the steps that led to the destruction of a black Philadelphia Break Through Navajo. neighborhood. University of Mexico (1969) Video Cassette ( 58 min.) Offers utterances which are used in F 158.9 N4 B65 everyday Navajo and presents basic structures. Bones of Contention. Cassette Films for the Humanities (1998) Text (234 p.) An examination of the conflict PM 2007 W54 between Native American groups and scientists, historians, and museum curators concerning Native American archaeological sites in the U.S. Video Cassette ( 49 min.) E 77.9 B65

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A Breath Scenes From the Lives of the Brown is the New Green. Artists Huang Miaozi and Ya Feng. PBS Home Video, c2007 Home Vision Arts (2000) Film examining how efforts to profit Famed Asian artists Huang Miaozi from Hispanic American culture have and Yu Feng recount how they survived the contributed to the shaping of its cultural upheavals in China in the 20th contemporary identity. The documentary's century. "Married since 1944, the couple, in focal point is comedian George Lopez, an six chapters, review the periods of their icon and advocate for Hispanic Americans' respective lives: childhood, youth in pre-war move into the mainstream. Features Shanghai, the rise of the cult of Mao, solitary conversations with members of the Hispanic confinement for seven years during the American youth market. Also includes Cultural Revolution and their emigration to interviews with Lopez and other Hispanic Australia after Mao's death"—Container. Americans. 1 videocassette (52 min.) 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) N7349.H83 B74 2000 E184.S75 B76 2007

The Broken Chain Buddha in the Land of the Kami. Turner Home Entertainment (1994) Films for the Humanities (1989) In the midst of the Revolutionary War, Begins with the creation myth of two Iroquois tribal brothers are caught up in Japan and explains the origin and scope of a fight to keep their people and their land the Kami concept (supernatural spirits who from destruction of approaching settlers. created the Japanese Islands); explains the Videocassette ( 1 hr 33 min) arrival of Buddhism and how Buddhism and PN1995.9.H5 .B76 1994 the Kami were assimilated; discusses the role of Chinese culture, style, and writing in Broken Rainbow. Japanese culture; and demonstrates how Direct Cinema (1985) the Japanese garden epitomizes the Presents an account of the forced Japanese view of the relationship between relocation of 12,000 Navajo Indians in man and nature, space, time, and reality. Northern Arizona. Captures the majesty of Video Cassette ( 54 min.) sacred Indian lands and the devastating DS 851 B82 effect that mining, forced relocation and stock reduction has had on the land and its Budrus. people. Typecast Releasing, [2011] Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 9 min.) They not only save the village, but the E 99 N3 B76 Barrier is pushed back behind the Green Line into No Man's Land. In the process, The Brooklyn Connection: How to Build a Ayed and Iltezam unleash an inspiring, yet Guerrilla Army. little-known, movement in the Occupied New Video Group (2005) Palestinian Territories that is still gaining Looks at the world of 'gun running' ground today. In an action-filled through the story of Albanian immigrant and documentary featuring archival footage of owner of a Brooklyn roofing company Florin this movement from its infancy, Budrus will Krasniqi and the guerrilla army he built by inspire and challenge audiences worldwide transporting weapons from the United States 1 videodisc (ca. 82 min.) to Kosovo. DS119.76 .B83 2011 1 videodisc (ca. 53 min.) F128.9.A3 S852 2005 Bugs for Breakfast. Learning Seed 2001 Discusses how which foods we eat and which foods we find disgusting is determined by our culture. Video Cassette ( 19 min.) GT2850 .B83 2001

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Cada Cabeza es un Mundo. Caste at Birth. Hispanic Education and Media Group, Filmakers Library (198?) (2001) Explores the human injustice of the Aimed at 13 to 17 year old Latino- "untouchables" of India, the lowest caste in Chicano at-risk students, this film confronts that country. At birth they are condemned to the crisis of why so many Latino-Chicano a segregated life with no education, menial students drop out of school and centers on jobs, and abuse by their villages. four high school students who faced difficult Video Cassette ( 52 min.) decisions in their lives about staying in DS 422 C3 C38 school. 1 Video Cassette The Cats of Mirikitani. 1 teacher's guide (10 p. ; 17 cm.) Arts Alliance America, [2008] LC2683.4 .C32 2001 "Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment Can We all Get Along? camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by PBS (1995) creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life Experts on race relations in America on the New York City streets and a local give their views on how and why racial filmmaker brings him to her home, the two tensions exist and continue to grow, and embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's what steps we need to take to maintain a painful past. An intimate exploration of the positive racial climate. lingering wounds of war and the healing Video Cassette ( 2 hr.) powers of community and art"—Container. E 184 A1 C27 1 videodisc (ca. 74 min.) N6537.M565 C38 2008 Carved in Silence. San Francisco, CA : Distributed by Causes of Prejudice. National Asian American Jeffrey Norton Pub. (1963) Telecommunications Association (1995) Dr. King and Dr. LeRoy Bowman Video 1 shows three campus discuss the roots of prejudice. Cites the incidents in which feelings are hurt, false importance of using nonviolence to assumptions are made, and friendships are overcome these problems. threatened due to cross-cultural Cassette (22 min.) communication problems. Video 2 replays HT 1521 K46 the same scenes, providing alternative ways to resolve conflict and improve Celebracion Del Matrimonio. communication skills. University of California 1 Video Cassette (45 min.) Studies a traditional Hispanic wedding E184.C5 C37 1995 ceremony in New Mexico. Video Cassette (30 min.) Carnival in Q'eros: Where the Mountains E 184 S75 C44 Meet the Jungle. Berkeley Media, (2006) Shows the remarkable carnival celebrations of a remote community of Quechusa Indians high in the Peruvian Andes. 1 videodisc (32 min.) F2230.2.K4 C37 2006

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(The) Celestial Empire: Path of the Chavez Ravine. Dragon. Bullfrog films (2004) Landmark Media, c2001 This documentary captures how a "The Celestial Empire - Path of the community was betrayed by greed, political Dragon attempts to unveil some of the hypocrisy, and good intentions gone astray. mystique behind China - the people, art, Don Normark's haunting photographs evoke culture and heritage of this 5,000 year-old a lost Mexican-American village in the heart empire. This 18 part series follows Chinese of downtown LA, razed in the 1950's to build history with its unrelenting perseverance an enormous low-income housing project. through the ages, and explains why China is Instead, the federally purchased land was the only surviving empire in the world today. used for Dodger Stadium. Both the past and the present are explored 1 videodisc (24 min.) with each episode focusing on a unique F869.L89 .M5145 2004 facet of Chinese life. The series begins by examining how Chinese culture has survived Chicana. nearly 5,000 years. This ancient dynastic Distributed by Women Make Movies, nation became a major contemporary [2005?] political and economic player, while all other Chicana traces the history of Chicana great empires have disappeared"— and Mexican women from pre-Columbian Container. times to the present. It covers women's role 18 videodiscs (468 min.) in Aztec society, their participation in the DS735 .C33 2001 1-18 1810 struggle for Mexican independence, their involvement in the US labor strikes in Challenging Hispanic Stereotypes: 1872, their contributions to the 1910 Arturo Madrid. Mexican revolution and their leadership in Films for the Humanities (1994) contemporary civil rights causes. Using Discusses the controversy murals, engravings and historical footage, surrounding bilingual education and the Chicana shows how women, despite their state of education, in general, for Hispanic poverty, have become an active and vocal people. part of the political and work life in both Video Cassette ( 30 min.) Mexico and the United States. LC 2670 C43 1 videodisc (23 min.) HQ1462 .C45 2005 Charlie Rose. [2008-01-10] Charlie Rose, Inc., [2008] Dennis Ross, Special Middle East Coordinator under President Clinton, and Ghaith al-Omari, Senior Research Fellow at the New American Foundation, discuss President Bush's trip to the Middle East to try to further the peace initiative. Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus discusses his ideas about reducing poverty by means of microfinance and microcredit. He also discusses his idea about social business. 1 videodisc (57 min.) DS119.76 .C43 2008

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Chicano! History of the Mexican Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. American Civil Rights Movement. PBS (1996) National Latino Communications Center, 1: Quest for a Homeland. Moves [2007?] from the 1967 struggle by Mexican This is a four part television series Americans to regain ownership of land documentary. It premiered nationally on grants to the 1970 Chicano Moratorium in PBS in April 1996. The program consists of East Los Angeles. four one-hour episodes. Episode 1 2: The Struggle in the Fields. examines the events at Tierra Amarilla, New Chronicles efforts of farm workers to form a Mexico, that sparked a national movement national labor union under Cesar Chavez. for social justice. It focuses on the 1967 3: Taking Back the Schools. Details struggle by Mexican Americans to regain the struggle to reform an educational system ownership of New Mexico lands guaranteed that failed to educate Mexican American them by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe students. Hidalgo and then visits the landmark Denver 4: Fighting for Political Power. Youth Conference in 1969. The episode Focuses on the creation of a third political concludes with the Chicano Moratorium party, La Raza Unida. March against the Vietnam War, held in East 4 Video Cassettes ( 57 min. ea) Los Angeles in 1970...an event that turned Index (17 p.) into a tragic riot resulting in the death of Guide (48 p.) renowned journalist Ruben Salazar. Episode Poster 2 examines the efforts of farmworkers to E 184 M5 C43 form a national labor union under the leadership of César Chávez. Episode 3 documents the Mexican-American struggle to reform an educational system that failed to properly educate Chicano students. Episode 4 focuses on the emergence in Texas of Mexican-American political power and the creation of a third political party, La Raza Unida. disc 1. Episode 1. Quest for a homeland (57 min.) / produced by Hector Galan and Mylène Moreno ; Episode 2. The struggle in the fields (57 min.) / produced by Sylvia Morales disc 2. Episode 3. Taking back the schools (56 min.) / produced by Susan Racho ; Episode 4. Fighting for political power (58 min.) / produced by Robert S. Cozens 2 videodiscs (228 min.) E184.M5 C43 2007

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Chicano Park. China: Beyond the Clouds. Cinema Guild (1989) National Geographic Society (1994) Barrio Logan, the Mexican American Filmmaker Phil Agland focuses on life community in San Diego, experienced a in one small town, Lijiang, a small market decline through the 50s until a struggle in town in southwestern China. Also discusses 1970 led to the creation of Chicano Park. the history and physical splendor The park became the focus for community surrounding this small town. revitalization in the 70s and 80s. Explores 2 Videocassettes (240 min.) cultural identity, racial relations in the U.S., HN740.L534 C45 1994 pt.1 – 2 and the role of popular culture in addressing social issues. China Rises. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Discovery Channel 2008 F 869 S22 C45 "China rises" is a look at this rapidly developing economic power, from a factory Children of Apartheid. to a pop concert and an Olympic volleyball California Newsreel (1987) court to the red carpet at the Shanghai Film Asks the question "Is apartheid on its Festival. "Behind the Great Wall" is a look at way out?" Children from the black the world's single greatest structure. townships express anger, fear, and 2 videodiscs (264 min.) hopelessness. White children uphold the HC427.95 .C45 2008 opinions of their parents claiming that apartheid is misunderstood, that South China's Lost Girls. Africa is a democracy, and that blacks have Warner Home Video (2005) equal opportunity. Host Lisa Ling examines the Video Cassette ( 50 min.) consequences of China's two-decade-old, DT 1757 C45 one-child policy, as it is commonly called. To curb the country's exploding population, Children of Violence. China limits most families to one child, or in Quest Productions, 1982 certain circumstances, two children. Due to A documentary that focuses on the cultural, social and economic factors, violence of life in an Oakland, Calif., barrio, traditional preference leans toward boys, so as seen through daily events involving four girls are often hidden, aborted or teenage brothers and their mother who abandoned. As a result, tens of thousands moves from the kitchen, to juvenile hall, to of girls end up in orphanages across China. the hospital where two of her sons are Many of these children are adopted by recovering from gunshot wounds. people in the United States. Shows some of Video Cassette ( 56 min.) these families traveling to China to meet HV9106.O34 C44 their new daughters. 1 videodisc (40 min.) China 21. HV875.64 .C45 2005 Distributed by NAATA Distribution, (2001) Chinatown. Interviews with four Chinese families KQED (1996) in Shanghai on how they experience the A look at Chinatown's tumultuous 21st century in China. history and at how the past and the present 1 videocassette (57 min.) live together. DS796.S25 C45 2001 Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) F 869 S36 C47

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Chinese New Year. Citizen King. Acorn Associates, c2005 PBS Home Video (2004) In China, the most important This story begins on the steps on the celebration of the year is Chinese New Year. Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34- Join Burt Wolf as he explores how Chinese year-old preacher galvanized millions with Americans celebrate this holiday, learns why his dream for an America free of racism. It it's important to clean your house before the comes to a bloody end almost five years New Year, introduces you to the Kitchen later on a motel balcony in Memphis, God, shows you the art of making dumplings Tennessee. In the years since those events and explains the meaning of the Lion Dance. unfolded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin 1 videodisc (27 min.) Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, GT4905 .C45 2005 a minister whose oratory is etched into the minds of millions of Americans, a civil rights Chinua Achebe: Africa’s Voice. activist whose words and image are more Films for the Humanities & Sciences hotly contested, negotiated and sold than (2004) almost anyone else's in American history. "This program analyzes the impact 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) Chinua Achebe and his writings have had on E185.97.K5 C58 2004 world literature, as well as his influence as an editor and a spokesman for a generation Citizen Tanouye. of African writers. Dr. Achebe, professors WGBH Boston Video (2006) Abiola Irele and Gerald Graff, and Charles "Eight ethnically diverse high school Larson, editor of the anthology Under students from Torrance, California bring African Skies, discuss the characterization, history to life as they research Technical social implications, and levels of Sergeant Ted Tanouye, a graduate of their interpretation of Things Fall Apart. Vital high school who was posthumously awarded concepts indigenous to the Ibos of the Medal of Honor for his service in WWII. southeastern Nigeria such as oral culture, Through their research of Citizen Tanouye, reincarnation, and negotiation concepts the students not only discover the impact of essential to a deep understanding of the the war on their city, but also draw attention novel are also presented"—Container. to the civil rights abuses of WWII-era 1 videodisc (61 min.) America"--. PR9387.9.A3 Z465 2004 1 videodisc (58 min.) D769.8.A6 C55 2006 Chulas Fronteras. Brazos Films (1976) City of the Big Shoulders. Provides an introduction to Norteno Films for the Humanities (1992) musicians ("Northern" -- Texas Mexican Polish immigrants were the driving border) working today. force behind Chicago's industrial growth, but Video Cassette ( 58 min.) they never achieved political cohesiveness. F 395 M5 C52 While a million Poles now live in Chicago, their political power is not commensurate with the number of votes they cast. Video Cassette ( 52 min.) E 184 P7 C57

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A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Color Adjustment. Rights Story. Signifyin' works 2004 PBS Home Video, c2009 An analysis of the portrayal of African- In the small town of Edna, Texas, in Americans on American television from 1951, field hand Pete Hernández killed a 1948-1988. Argues that earlier images were tenant farmer after exchanging words in a outright racist, and that later images have cantina. From this murder emerged a been overly biased towards prosperous landmark civil rights case that would change blacks. the lives and legal standing of ten of millions pt. 1. Color blind TV? (1948-1968) of Americans. Tells the story of an underdog pt. 2. Coloring the dream (1968-1988) band of Mexican American lawyers who took 1 videodisc (87 min.) their case all the way to the Supreme Court, PN1992.8.A34 C65 2004 where they challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans. The Color of Fear. Lawyers forged a daring legal strategy, Stir-Fry Prod. (1994) arguing that Mexican Americans were "a Shows the pain and anguish that class apart" from a legal system that racism has caused in the lives of eight North recognized only blacks and whites. American men of Asian, European, Latino, 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) and African descent. KF224.H468 C53 2009 Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 30 min.) HT 1521 C64 A Class Divided. [Alexandria, VA] : PBS DVD Video, The Color of Fear. 1. (2003) StirFry Seminars & Consulting, [200-?] In 1968, after the assassination of Martin Eight North American men of different Luther King, Jane Elliott, a public school races continue to talk together about how teacher in Riceville, Iowa, divided her all- racism affects them and how their time white third-graders into blue-eyed and together has changed their initial anger and brown-eyed groups for a lesson in racial perspectives. discrimination. On successive days, each 1 videodisc (90 min.) group was treated as inferior and subjected HT1521 .C64 2000z to discrimination. A 1970 documentary, Eye of the storm, presented this experiment on The Color of Fear. 1: Film Guides. television. This documentary reunites the StirFry Seminars & Consulting, [200-?] teacher and students 15 years after the This program provides study guides experiment to analyze its enduring effects. to The color of fear. Eight North American 1 videodisc (55 min.) men of different races continue to talk LC212.23.R53 C52 2003 together about how racism affects them and how their time together has changed their Color Adjustment. initial anger and racial perspectives. California Newsreel (1991) 1 videodisc (90 min.) Traces 40 years of turbulent race HT1521 .C6415 2000z relations through the lens of prime time entertainment. Reveals how prime time was The Color of Fear 2: Walking Each Other "integrated" and how bitter racial conflicts Home. were absorbed into non-controversial StirFry Seminars & Consulting (1998) formats of the prime time series. Eight North American men Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 27 min.) of different races continue to talk together E 185.61 C65 about how racism affects them and how their time together has changed their initial anger and racial perspectives. 1 videocassette (55 min.) HT1521 .C642 1998

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The Color of Fear 3: Four Little Beds. Colors Straight Up. Stir Fry Seminars & Consulting (2005) Filmmakers Library (1997) A film about the struggle of the gay, In the ghetto of South Central, L.A., lesbian and transgender community to be where Latino-and African-American kids seen and understood in a predominantly struggle against a myriad of destructive heterosexist society. From the original influences, there is an option for a better life. seminar, the cast of "The color of fear", an Troubled teens discovered their talents and ethnically diverse group of eight North self dignity through "Colors United", a American men, discuss the feelings and performing arts group created for inner city prejudices they felt during the weekend youth. This uplifting and emotional about the sexual orientations of other group documentary offers powerful insights into members. They discuss what it is to be gay the thoughts and feelings of these "at risk" in this society and the impact it has on children. senses of safety and identity. Through Video Cassette ( 60 min.) personal stories and interactions, we have a HQ 796 C65 glimpse into the fears, the stereotypes, and moral issues that are dividing and Columbus Didn't Discover Us. confronting us today. A ten-year Turning Tide Prod. (1992) retrospective has been added, with Roberto Native people speak about the Almanzan and David Lee talking about the devastation of their cultures resulting from original discussion, and other issues. the "European invasion", contemporary 1 videodisc (43 min.) struggles over land and human rights, the HQ76.3.U5 C635 2005 importance of reviving spiritual traditions, and the need to alert the world to the De Colores: Lesbianas y Gays Latinos: environmental crises threatening the planet. Historias de Fuerza, Familia y Amor = Video Cassette ( 24 min.) Lesbian & Gay Latinos: Stories of E 58 C64 Strength, Family and Love. EyeBite Productions (2001) A Common Destiny. Examines the struggles of Hispanic Mystic Fire (1990) gays and lesbians coming out to their 1. Walking in Both Worlds: Jewell parents, especially in a culture that places Praying Wolf James speaks from a cedar value on "family tradition" above all else. tree stump in an ancient Northwest forest. Through interviews and commentaries, the He brings to the present the message of his stories of this largely ignored community are ancestor, Chief Seattle. contrasted against similar experiences by 2. The Hopi Prophecy: Thomas Anglo-Americans. Banyacya, a spokesman for the Hopi high 1 Video Cassette (28 min.) religious leaders, interprets the potentially HQ76.3.U5 D4 2001 apocalyptic message of the petroglyph on Second Mesa. Colors. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home E 99 H7 C62 Entertainment (2001) Two Los Angeles cops, one a veteran and one a rookie, try to bring peace to the gang war raging on the streets of L.A. 1 videodisc (120 min.) PN1995.9.P57 C64 2001

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The Complete Blue Eyed. Contrary Warriors. Admire Productions (2004) Direct Cinema Limited (1990) Jane Elliott, an elementary school Weaves critical events in Native teacher, did an exercise with her class in American history into the lives of present which the children with one eye color were day Crow Indians. Focuses on the discriminated against so that the children achievements of 97 year old tribal leader, could see what being a victim of racism felt Robert Yellowtail, who saved Crow land like. The original record of this technique and culture from obliteration. has been made into three separate versions Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) so it can be used in different settings. E 99 C92 C65 Blue Eyed. (the most concise version) 30min A Conversation on Race. Essential Blue Eyed. (trainer's ed., Films for the Humanities and Sciences with debriefing with Jane Elliott) 90 When Washington Post journalist min Lonnae O'Neal Parker wrote her Blue Eyed (original version) 93 min controversial article "White girl" she struck a Blue Eyed Trainer's Manual. nerve—and opened a dialogue--with readers (suggestions for using "blue eyed" in on both coasts. In this program ABC News diversity training programs) anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent John 1 videodisc (213 min) + guide Donvan explore what it means to be black in BF575.P9 C64 2004 America. Video Cassette ( 22 min.) Conquistadors. E185.625 .C65 2000 PBS Video (2001) Four part series on the discovery of Credo: Muslims in France. the Americas by the Spanish conquistadors Films for the Humanities (1993) and the subsequent fall of the Aztec and Looks at the problems faced by Inca empires. Lyon’s young Muslim population as they try pt. 1. The fall of the Aztecs to gain acceptance into French society while pt. 2. The conquest of the Incas adapting their religion to break ties with pt. 3. The search for El Dorado North Africa and the Arabic world. A new pt. 4. All the world is human kind of Islam is emerging, to which France 4 Video Cassettes ( 6 hrs) appears to be reacting to with racism and E123 .C65 2001 religious intolerance. Video Cassette ( 30 min.) Contemporary Visual Expressions. DC 34.5 M87 M87 The Museum : Distributed by National Audiovisual Center, (1987) Cree Hunters of Mistassini. Four Black American artists, Sam Documentary Educational Resources Gilliam, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Keith (2006) Morrison, and William T. Williams, discuss Shows the annual move north of the their work, how they do it, and what it Cree Indians in the James Bay area and means. shows the conflict produced by the James 1 videocassette (20 min.) Bay development scheme between the ND238.N5 C65 1987 hunting culture of the Cree and the dominant white culture that has come to rely heavily Continuing Conquest. on large-scale technology. Soundprint (1992) 1 videodisc (59 min.) Discusses what real American history E99.C88 C74 2004 is and provides two viewpoints on Columbus, one from people descended from the Spaniards, and one from people descended from Native Americans. Cassette E 119.2 C65

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Cry of the Yurok. Customs and Manners: The Fabric of Films for the Humanities (19??) Japanese Society. Details the many problems that have Shin-el (1990) beset California's largest native American Looks into the various aspects of Tribe. Their lands were overrun by Japan's customs and their importance in prospectors and soldiers in the 19th century, Japan's group-oriented culture. These their primeval forest cut by lumber include bowing, hanko (personalized seals), companies, and environmental destruction footwear, tatami, table manners, gift giving, nearly wiped out the fish on which they tea ceremony, socializing and awareness of depend. others. Video Cassette ( 58 min.) 1 videocassette (28 min.) E 99 Y97 C78 DS894.24 .C87x - Videocassette

The Cubans. Daily Baghdad = Quotidien Bagdad Films for the Humanities (1991) Quotidien. Seeks to show how ordinary people First Run/Icarus Films, (2004) live out ordinary lives in Cuba 30 years after "What is daily life in Baghdad like for the Revolution. Spanish with English one Iraqi family, a year after the beginning of subtitles. the war that ousted the oppressive regime of Video Cassette ( 52 min.) Saddam Hussein but replaced it with an F 1788 C84 occupation by U.S. troops? Acclaimed French filmmaker Romain Goupil chronicles Culture-Centered Counseling. the daily life of the family of Abbas ad American Psychological Association, Roubay, a former member of Saddam's (2004) Republican Guard who now struggles to Dr. Pedersen discusses with Jon make a living as a deliveryman, and his wife Carlson the competencies needed in Yasmine and their children"—Container. culture-centered counseling, and conducts a 1 videodisc (101 min.) counseling session with a young Hispanic DS79.76 .D35 2004 woman. 1 videocassette (112 min.) Dances of the Kwakiutl. BF637.C6 C78 2004 Documentary Educational Resources, (2005) The Culture of Poverty. Dances of the Kwakiutl is composed of Films for the Humanities (1992) fragments filmed in 1950 in Fort Rupert, Many Latino families are caught in the British Columbia. They were made during a cycle of poverty. Explores strategies for performance by those still familiar with the meeting the needs of these children and tradition of Hamatsa or cannibal dancing. profiles an effort to keep kids off the streets This type of dance was brought to and instill in them a sense of pride. impressive artistic heights by the Kwakiutl Video Cassette ( 26 min.) people of the Northwest coast. E 184 S75 C84 1 videodisc (9 min.) E59.D35 D36 2005 Customs & Manners: The Fabric of Japanese Society. Dance of the Warriors. NCS Video (1989) Mystic Fire Video (1988) Explains the various aspects of The Blairs sail to Komodo and film Japan's customs and manners: bowing, Giant carnivorous lizards. On Sumba they Hanko, Tatami, tea ceremony, awareness of witness a veiled form of human sacrifice. others. The brothers journey 50,000 years into the Video Cassette ( 29 min.) past to live with Asmat headhunters in New DS 894.24 C87 Guinea. In Bali, they build a home in a village of farmers, artists and mystics. Video Cassette ( 58 min.) DS 647 K6 R55

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Dancing in Moccasins: Keeping Native Daughters of the Dust. American Traditions Alive. King Video (1991) Films for the Humanities (1994) Explores the culture of the Gullah Examines the needs and problems of people, descendants of slaves who lived in today’s Native Americans, whether they live relative isolation on the Sea Islands off the on the reservation or live in the mainstream. Georgia coast. Tells a family's story as they Focuses on celebration and survival as prepare to move North at the dawn of the reflected in the tradition of the Pow Wow. 20th century. Video Cassette ( 49 min.) Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 53 min.) E 77 D25 E 185.93 G4 D38

Danza Azteca de Anahuac. A Day in the Life of a Village in Africa. Films for the Humanities (1994) CustomFlix (2003) Celebrants of an ancient native Shows a typical day in Sayaga, a tradition demonstrate their dances and farming village in Burkina Faso. Includes costumes, explaining their meaning---the scenes of food preparation, house building, literal and symbolic meaning of the feathers children in school, traditional work, a funeral, and face paint, as well as the larger music, etc. Also includes scenes of city life meaning of the dance. in Accra, Ghana. Video Cassette ( 26 min.) 1 videodisc (60 min.) E 98 D2 D25 DT553.U742 D38 2003

Dark Passages. Death of a Princess. PBS Video (1995) WGBH Educational Foundation (2005) Employs a mixture of interviews, This film re-creates journalist Antony slave narratives, and dramatization. Tells Thomas' journey through the Arab world to the story of the impact of the Atlantic slave investigate the public execution for adultery trade. Takes the viewer from the House of of a young Saudi Arabian princess and her Slaves on Goree Island off the coast of lover in 1977. Frontline reissues the 1980 Dakar, Senegal, to the village of Juffere on docudrama film followed by a discussion the Gambia River. about the controversy surrounding the Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) original release of the film and the status of HT 871 D27 Saudi women more than twenty years after the original broadcast. The Darker Side of Black. 1 videodisc (117 min.) Filmakers Library (1994) HQ1730 .D43 2005 An investigation of the complex issues raised by the genre of Rap and Del Mero Corazon. Reggae. Examines issues such as Brazos Films (1976) ritualized machismo, misogyny, A lyrical journey through the heart of homophobia, and gun glorification. Chicano culture, as reflected in the love Video Cassette ( 59 min.) songs of the Tex-Mex Norteno music ML 3531 D27 tradition. Video Cassette ( 28 min.) Daughters of the Anasazi. M 1668.4 D44 Film Project (1990) Documents the entire process of The Desert Smells Like Rain. making Acoma pottery much the same way Audio Press (1990) as American ancestors did over a thousand Stories from The Desert Smells Like years ago. Rain and Gathering the Desert offer insight Video Cassette ( 28 min.) into the folklore of the Tohono O'dham E 99 A16 L82 Indians. 2 Cassettes E 99 P25 N33

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Destination America. Dineh Nation: The Navajo Story. Films for the Humanities (1992) Filmmakers Library A Place in the Sun. In 20 years, four Photographed in the Sovereign Dineh milliion Italians entered the United States. Indian Reservation through parts of Arizona, While all immigrant groups were disdained New Mexico, and Utah. The Navajo religion by those who had come even a generation considers Mother Earth sacred and forbids before, Italians suffered especially. Many them from exploiting her resources. Here became poorly-paid laborers, but many outside forces are at work, strip mining the others made good. coal, polluting the water, and drying the The Biggest Jewish City in the wells. World. The influx of Jewish immigrants Video Cassette ( 26 min.) made New York the world's most densely E 99 N3 D42 populated city. They went on to become one of the most influential immigrant groups Discovering Dominga. in America. University of California Extension Center F 128.9 J5 B43 for Media and Independent Learning City of the Big Shoulders. Polish (2002) immigrants were the driving force behind Denese Becker, born Dominga Sic Chicago's remarkable industrial growth. But Ruiz, is a survivor of the 1982 Rio Negro they never achieved political cohesiveness, massacre in Guatemala. Nine years old at and while a million Poles now live in the time of the massacre, during which both Chicago, their political power is not of her parents were killed, Denese was commensurate with the number of votes adopted by an American family and raised in they cast. Iowa. As an adult she begins to confront her Made in Britain. The British had it memories and nightmares, returning to the easiest of all. As long ago as the Guatemala almost twenty years after the settlement in Jamestown, they came not to massacre and ultimately becoming an escape poverty but to find prosperity. As a advocate for the victims and survivors at group, they found it the easiest to reap the great personal cost. material rewards of an expanding America. Video Cassette (57 min) Old World, New World. This F1466.5 .D57 2002 program tells the story of 35 million Europeans who left their troubled Distorted Image: Stereotype and homelands for the promise of freedom and Caricature in America 1850-1922 opportunity, and the hardships of the Anti-Defamation League (1992) transatlantic voyage they endured to reach Cartoons and caricatures from America. American popular publications, reflecting On A Clear Day You Can See widespread attitudes toward immigrant Boston. Boston became the focal point for racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in the those fleeing the Irish Famine of the 1850s. United States, 1850-1922. They became the first immigrant group in Video Cassette ( 29 min.) post-Colonial times to achieve a political E 184 A1 D56 foothold. F 73.9 I6 O52 2 Video Cassettes ( 52 min.) Divided We Stand. Films for the Humanities (1997) Examines how genetic studies are being used divisively by blacks and whites to prove racial superiority. Video Cassette ( 49 min.) QH 438.7 D57

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Do Not Enter. Doubles: Japan and America’s New Day Films (1987) Intercultural Children. Takes a look at the law, which Sasakawa Peace Foundation (1995) prohibits entry into the United States of Interviews with American soldiers, people because of their beliefs. Presents an Japanese women, and their biracial children account of the reasons for the law and what thirty years after the Allies occupied Japan. critics and defenders believe of it. Discusses the new generation of 1 Video Cassette (58 min.) intercultural children growing up in America KF4827 .D6 1987 and Japan. Video Cassette ( 59 min.) Does the Cactus Have a Soul? HQ 777.9 D68 Cinema Guild (1987) Concludes with a map of Israel thickly Dream Dances of the Kashia Pomo. covered by white dots representing Arab University of California (196?) villages destroyed in the process of Pomo women dance the century old establishing and developing the Jewish Bole Maru. Five dances are shown, each state. Interviews with Palestinians recorded danced in costume around a fire within a in the ruins of those Arab villages lead up to brush enclosure. that final image. Video Cassette ( 30 min.) Video Cassette ( 45 min.) E 99 P65 D74 DS 126.9 D64 Dream Wanderers of Borneo. Dollar a Day, 10 cents a Dance. Mystic Fire Video (1988) Cinema Guild (1985) For 800 miles, through uncharted Filipino immigrants chronicle the rainforest the Blairs seek the last of the history of their immigration to the U.S. during Punan Dyaks, believed to no longer the 1920s and 30s. exist. They find them and are initiated into Video Cassette ( 30 min.) the spiritual mysteries of the "dream E 184 F4 D64 wanderers." Video Cassette ( 58 min.) Domino: Interracial People and the DS 646.32 P85 R55 Search for Identity. Films for the Humanities (1995) Dreaming Filipinos. Explores the stories of six interracial NAATA (1995) people and their quest to forge their own This comedy-satire looks at cultural identities. Explores the issues of identity, imperialism in the Philippines and the cultural isolation and the search for resulting Filipino identity with its community. preoccupation with being American. Video Cassette ( 44 min.) Video Cassette ( 52 min HQ 777.9 D64 PN 1997.85 D74

Double Shift. Drumline. Films for the Humanities & Sciences 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (1997) (2002) Documentary that looks at the Halftime is party time for the gifted question of equality for women in area of street drummer who snares the top spot in work: opportunity, pay, career and family, his university's marching band. However, he value placed on traditional activities, initially flounders in his new world, before exploitation, self-employed women, realizing that it takes more than talent to househusbands. reach the top. Video Cassette ( 47 min.) Video Cassette (118 min) HQ 1154 D68 PN1995.9.C55 D78 2003

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Dying to Leave: The Dark Business of Emerging Burma and Cambodia. Human Trafficking. Questar Video (1995) Films for the Humanities & Science An inside look at two countries that (2006) have been hidden from the world's view, but Explores the current worldwide boom which are now attempting to progress in illicit migration and human trafficking and alongside the other countries of Southeast looks at the dire circumstances that drive Asia. desperate people from their homes. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) 1 videodisc (60 min.) DS 554.382 E44 JV6201 .D85 2006 End of the Trail. East of Krakatoa. Time Life Video (1990) Mystic Fire Video (1988) Chronicles the tragic fall of the The Blairs encounter a world of American Indian. medieval courts, mystical shadow puppet Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) plays, forgers of magical swords, healers E 78 G73 E53 with supernatural powers, and whole communities ruled by the spirit of the South Enhancing the Potential of the African- Seas. Among the Torajan people of the American Child. Celebes highlands, they share in the By Dr. Na'im Akbar. massive funeral rites of the last king of the Discusses ways to try to improve the tribe. performance and adjustment of the minority Video Cassette ( 58 min.) student in general and specifically of the DS 646.23 R55 African-American student. Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 25 min.) The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The LC 2717 A33 Vision of Audre Lorde. Profile Productions (2002) Equal but Separate. Video by Jennifer Abod about poet Ambrose Video (1993) "Audre Lorde's social vision and the Discusses the fact that on some translation of that vision into an historic college campuses Afro-Americans are transnational conference, which used her staking out their own territory with their own work, while celebrating her life." --Container dorms, buses, yearbooks, etc. 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) Video Cassette ( 14 min.) PS3562.O75 Z58 2000 E 185.61 E547

Edward S. Curtis Portfolios. Escuela: A Documentary. Larkspur Fine Arts Women Make Movies (2002) Contains 722 photographs taken by This film documents the experiences Edward S. Curtis of North American Indians. of the children of Hispanic migrant farm Video Cassette ( 2 hr.) workers in trying to complete their Foreward (7 p.) education. Filmed in California, Texas, and Id Text (21 p.) Mexico. E 89 C87 1 videocassette (53 min.) LC5151 .E73 2002 Ellis Island New Video Group (1997) Ethnic Notions. Immigrants of every ethnic California Newsreel (1987) background recall their adventures, Traces the evolution of the deeply historians explore the sometimes insensitive rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti- national policies, and the Ellis Island Oral black prejudice. Sheds light on the origins History Project reveals what the immigration and consequences of 150 years of bigotry. experience was actually like. Features rare Video Cassette ( 57 min.) photographs and film. E 185.61 E842 1 videodisc (150 min.) JV6484 .E45 1997

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Ethnicity and Counseling: Multicultural Everyday people. Approaches. HBO Video, c2004 CSUF/TVMSC (1990) Tells the interconnected stories of a Counseling the Black group of racially diverse New Yorkers who American/African American Client. Shows a rub elbows at Raskin's, a venerable counselor adapting the structure of a Brooklyn diner and New York City institution counseling session to suit the ethnic whose Jewish owner has just revealed his orientation of the client. (58 min) plans to sell the place off to make way for E 185.625 C68 condominiums and newer, more "gentrified" Counseling the Mexican Client. establishments. Told over the course of a Shows a counselor adapting the structure of single workday, the story challenges a counseling session to suit the ethnic conventional assumptions about class and orientation of the client. (43 min.) racial identity. If you think you know E 184 M5 C677 everyday people by how they look ... you Counseling the Native American better think again. Indian Client. Shows a counselor adapting 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) the structure of a counseling session to suit PN1995.9.M45 E93 2004 the ethnic orientation of the client. (1 hr. 24 min.) E 98 P95 C68 Der Ewige Jude = The Eternal Jew. 3 Video Cassettes International Historic Films (2004) An anti-Semitic Euro-American Issues in the U.S.A. propaganda film. Insight Media (1992) 1 videodisc (62 min.) Explores the diversity of European DS146.G4 E85 2004 ethnic groups in the U.S. Focuses on the conflicts of merging with the majority Anglo Executive Recruitment Roundtable. culture while retaining individual languages DiversityInc. (2006) an customs. Examines the changing Strategies to use in recruitment of demographics of the U.S. and investigates diverse candidates for executive positions. the stability of different groups in the 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) American mosaic. HF5549.5.R44 E94 2006 Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) E 184 A1 E93 The Exiles. Milestone Film & Video, [2008] Even If A Hundred Ogres. An account of the problems that are Cinnamon Productions (1996) encountered by American Indians who live Sami people of the arctic region north in urban areas and are caught between two of Europe show their ancient traditions using conflicting cultures, by showing 12 hours in drama, music, and dance. the lives of a group living in Los Angeles. 1 videocassette (56 min.) 1 videodisc (72 min.) DL42.L36 E84 1996 E98.U72 E95 2008

Everyone Their Grain of Sand. Extermination or Survival? Women Make Movies, 2005 Pacifica Tape Library (1970) Examines the impact of global Describes how the occupation of industrialization on land ownership in Alcatraz Island sparked Indian liberation Tijuana. The film follows the struggle of the struggles throughout America. community of Maclovio Rojas, a highly- Cassette organized, low-income community on the E 93 E97 outskirts of Tijuana which has been in a land struggle for over 15 years. 1 videodisc (87 min.) HC138.T52 E94 2005

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Eyes on the Prize II: 1965-1985. Eyes on the Prize II: 1965-1985. (con’t) PBS (1989) A Nation of Law? (1968-1971) Part 2: Two Societies (1965-1968). Examines the government's response to Explores the southern civil rights dissent from the Black Panther party in movement's first attempt at organizing in the Chicago and rebelling inmates at Attica. North, in Chicago. Looks at the 1967 Chronicles the FBI's covert program to uprising in Detroit. Witnesses a president disrupt and neutralize black organizations. who turns his attention away from civil E185.615 .E932 1989 pt.6 rights. The Keys to the Kingdom (1974- E185.615 .E932 1989 pt.2 1980). Describes the Boston black Power! 1967-1968. Explores the community's efforts to achieve high quality political path to power for Carl Stokes. education and the desegregation of Boston Describes the founding of the Black Panther public schools. Examines the effects of the Party. Examines the education experiment controversial Supreme Court ruling in the in New York's Ocean Hill-Brownsville case of Alan Bakke. section. E185.615 .E932 1989 pt.7 E185.615 .E932 1989 pt.3 Back to the Movement (1979 mid- The Promised Land (1967-1968). 1980s). Explores the themes of power and Illustrates the connections between the war powerlessness. Describes the grassroots in Vietnam and the problem of poverty in the organizing effort leading up to Harold U.S. Analyzes the positions taken by Martin Washington's election. Luther King on the issues of Vietnam and E185.615 .E932 1989 pt.8 economic justice. Describes the days 8 Video Cassettes (1 hr. each) leading up to his assassination. 1 viewer's guide (22 p) E185.615 .E932 1989 pt.4 Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More(1964- Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights 1972). Chronicles Muhammad Ali's Movement. challenge to America to accept him as a PBS Video (2006) minister of Islam. Describes the student A history of the people, the stories, movement at Howard University. Explores the events and the issues of the civil rights the "coming of age"' of black politicians and struggle in the United States from the mid political activists. 1950's to the mid 1980's. E185.615 .E932 1989 pt.5 v. 1. Awakenings (1954-1956) ; Fighting back (1957-1962) v. 2. Ain't scared of your jails (1960- 1961) ; No easy walk (1961-1963) v. 3. Mississippi : Is this America? (1962-1964) ; Bridge to freedom (1965) v. 4. The time has come (1964-1966) ; Two societies (1965-1968) v. 5. Power! (1966-1968) ; The promised land (1967-1968) v. 6. Ain't gonna shuffle no more (1964-1972) ; A nation of law? (1968-1971) v. 7. The keys to the kingdom (1974- 1980) ; Back to the movement (1979-mid 1980s) 7 videodiscs (120 min. each) + 1 guide (228 p.) E185.615 .E93 2006

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Fade to Black. Family Name. Video Data Bank, [2006?] First Run/Icarus Films (1997) Re-examines racism in everyday life. As a child growing up in Durham, Juxtaposing archival movie footage with North Carolina, Macky Alston never quotations in the form of texts and voice- questioned why all the other Alstons in his overs, this work explores the ideological school were black. Now, after twenty-five implications of the rhetoric between blacks years, he has gone back to unravel the and whites. mystery. In this documentary of race 1 videodisc (33 min.) relations, Alston travels to family reunions, E185.61 .F13 2006 picnics, housing projects, churches, graveyards and the original Alston The Faithkeeper. plantations to find people who share his Mystic Fire Video (1991) family name. As the Faithkeeper, a chief of the Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 29 min.) Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, Oren CT 274 A57 F35 Lyons keeps alive his people's history and traditional values. He discusses ancient Farming The Seas. Native American prophecies of the Bullfrog Films, c2004 ecological disasters we now face, recounts This is the sequel to the award- how democracy was modeled on Indian winning PBS special Empty oceans, empty confederations and tells the legends of his nets. "As the aquaculture industry explodes people. across the globe, a growing number of Video Cassette ( 58 min.) communities and fisheries experts are E 98 P5 L86 engaged in and intense debate over its environmental, socio-economic, and health Family Across the Sea. and food safety consequences"--Container California Newsreel (1991) 1 videodisc (56 min.) Scholars have uncovered the HD9450.5 .F37 2004 connections between the Gullah people of South Carolina and the people of Sierra Favela Rising. Leone. Documents how the Gullahs Genius Entertainment, c2005 incorporated many aspects of African culture Documents how former drug-trafficker in the daily life of the plantations. Concludes Anderson Sa, and Jose Junior's Grupo with the "homecoming" of a delegation of Cultural AfroReggae are working to unite a Gullah to West Africa. Rio slum, or favela, against a violent drug Video Cassette ( 56 min.) industry and police oppression. The Grupo E 185 F34 Cultural AfroReggae organization uses music as an instrument of change, to offer A Family Gathering. an alternative to the drug lords as role NAATA (1998) models for the children of the favela, and Sa Tells the story of the consequences of is the lead vocalist for their band, the U.S. internment policy and the Yasui AfroReggae family's long battle to reclaim their place as 1 videodisc (82 min.) Americans. A tale of family survival and the HV4075.R53 F38 2005 need to understand one's own connections with the past. Favelas. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Cinema Guild (1989) D 769.8 A6 F35 1998 Takes viewers into the heart of the Brazilian favelas, the slums that spread through Sao Paulo. Video Cassette ( 50 min.) HN 290 S33 F38

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The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs. Fires in the Mirror. PBS Home Video PBS (1993) Begins with the 1947 UN decision to Anna Deavere Smith's one-woman partition Palestine and continues to current play that presents a compelling view of day (1998). The film includes interviews and urban racial and class conflict. Ms. Smith news clips of heads of state and other assumes personalities of 30 characters military and intelligence leaders. Traces caught in the racial turmoil that erupted in history of Palestinian Liberation the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn Organization. following the death of an African-American pt. 1. Land divided, 1947-56 – child and the stabbing of a Hasidic rabbinical pt. 2. The six day war, 1967 – student. pt. 3. Palestinian exiles, 1970-82 Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 30 min.) pt. 4. Peacemaking, 1970-79 F 128.9 N4 F57 pt. 5. Banging heads, 1987-91 pt. 6. Land divided, 1992-98 The First Americans. 2 Video Cassettes ( 294 min.) A&E Television Network (2004) DS126.5 .A15 1999 This documentary looks at the first inhabitants of the North American continent; Fight in the Fields. what we know about them, and what Paradigm Prod (1997) remains a mystery. The story of Cesar Chavez, founder 1 videodisc of the United Farmworkers Union, and the E77 .F57 2004 movement he inspired. Video Cassette (1 hr. 55 min.) HD 6509 C48 F53

Fighter for Freedom, the Frederick Douglass Story. Distributed by National Audiovisual Center (1987) Presents the life and times of the orator, emancipator, and statesman, Frederick Douglass. 1 videocassette (19 min.) E449.D75 F53 1987

Filipino Americans: Discovering Their Past for the Future. Filipino American National Historical Society (1994) The story of Filipino Americans and their contributions to the American way of life for the past 400 years. Video Cassette ( 54 min.) E 184 F4 F38

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500 Nations. For My People: the Life and Writing of Warner Home Video (1995) Margaret Walker. 1. The Ancestors. Explores three California Newsreel (1998) early cultures of North America: Pueblo Through interviews with writers, Bonito, Cliff Palace, and Cahokia. scholars, and Walker herself, this 2. Mexico. The Indians of Central documentary examines the life and work of Mexico and eyewitness accounts of the poet Margaret Walker focusing on the Aztec-Spanish War highlight volume 2. influence that her writing has had on African 3. Clash of Cultures. On Hispaniola, American women writers Indian overtures of friendship and commerce 1 Video Cassette (28 min.) run aground. Timicua, Coosa and more PS3545.A517 Z67 1998 nations defy a plundering advance. 4. Invasion of the Coast. Opens in Forbidden City, U.S.A. the Arctic with the Inuit people. Moves to PBS Video (1996) Jamestown and Pocahontas and then the In the 30's, crowds packed the Wampanoagas at Plymouth. nation's premiere all-Chinese nightclub, 5. Cauldron of War. Many Forbidden City, in San Francisco. Second indigenous nations side with the French in generation Chinese Americans battled the fierce French and Indian War. Pontiac tradition in an effort to join mainstream rises to prominence as a leader and the American culture. democratic Iroquois nation splinters. Video Cassette ( 56 min.) 6. Removal. The Indian Removal Act F869.S39 C54 of 1830, meant tragedy for the Chickasaws, Choctaws, Cherokee, Creeks, and Forever in Time. Seminoles. Sepia Productions (1989) 7. Roads Across the Plains. "Horse Takes a look at the life and works of cultures" faced subjugation or annihilation Edward S. Curtis whose photography of the as settlers moved west and gold fever American Indian spanned the first three struck. decades of the twentieth century. 8. Attack on Culture. Explores the Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) legislative attack on native ways and the TR 140 C82 A77 disbanding of communal land. 8 Video Cassettes ( 49 min. ea) Forgotten Fires. E 77 A18 tapes 1-8 U of CA Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning (1998) For Angela-- A documentary about the burning of National Film Board of Canada (1993) two Afro-American churches near Manning, Story about racism inspired by the South Carolina in June, 1995 by Ku Klux true story of Rhonda Gordon and her Klan members. daughter Angela, who are Canadian Native Video Cassette ( 57 min) Americans and who were racially harassed HV 6250.4 E75 F67 by three boys on a trip to a bus stop. Includes an interview with Rhonda Gordon Four Days of the Masai. and Angela. Interama Inc. (1980) 1 Video Cassette (22 min.) Explores the day-to-day life of one of E78.C2 F67 1993 the Masai tribes, the semi-nomadic herdspeople who inhabit the savannahs of Kenya. These people were able to resist domination by the British and preserve their freedom by selling their cattle to pay taxes. The Masai live relatively untouched by Western influence. Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 38 min.) DT 433.545 M33 F68

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Frederick Douglass. Freedom on My Mind. A & E Home Video (1999) California Newsreel, [2004] Examines the life of the ex-slave and Revisits the Mississippi freedom abolitionist Frederick Douglas. Also movement in the early 1960s when a examines his role during the Civil War. handful of idealistic young activists believed 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.) they could change history -- and did. In E449 .F74 1999 1964, organizers of the voter registration drive, fearing for their lives and hoping to Frederick Douglass, an American Life. attract the nation and federal government to The Division: Distributed by National their plight, recruited 1,000 mostly white Audiovisual Center (1985) college students from around the country to A documentary on the personal and join them for Freedom Summer. Three public life of orator, emancipator, and students were murdered but the drive statesman Frederick Douglass as told in his succeeded in signing up 80,000 members, own words. Using flashbacks, re-creates mostly poverty-stricken sharecroppers, critical events that shaped his life. Covers maids and day-laborers who confronted jail, his years as a slave; his escape; his beatings and even murder for the right to relationships with William Garrison, John vote. Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and Harriet 1 videodisc (110 min.) Tubman; his newspaper; and his family life. E185.93.M6 F74 2004 1 videocassette (31 min.) E449.D75 F773 1985 Freedom on My Mind. Clarity Film (1994) Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Chronicles the history of the Wrote History. Mississippi voter registration struggles which PBS (1994) culminated in a confrontation at the Utilizes archival photos and images, Democratic Convention of 1964. Told interviews with scholars, and live-action mainly by the participants. cinematography of historical locations to tell Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 50 min.) the story of Frederick Douglass. E 185.93 M6 F74 Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 30 min.) E 449 D75 F77 Freedom Train. Filmakers Library (1995) Free Trade Slaves. Surviving members of the National Films for the Humanities & Sciences Negro Labor Council recall their first (1999) convention in Cincinnati. Ten thousand Film discusses free trade zones and people got jobs as a result of its activities the accompanying human problems that and the torch was passed on to the '60s have arisen with human rights, exploitation activists. of workers, and environmental degradation. Video Cassette ( 28 min.) Filmed on location in Sri Lanka, El Salvador, E 185.5 N2973 F74 Mexico and Morocco. Video Cassette ( 58 min.) HB 72 F74

Freedom Bags. Filmmakers Library (1990) The story of African American women who migrated from the rural south during the first three decades of the 20th Century. The women remember their tactics for self preservation in the homes of their employers, where they often faced exploitation and sexual harassment. Video Cassette ( 32 min.) HD 6057.5 U5 F74

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Freedom Writers. Frontline World: Stories From a Small Films for the Humanities & Sciences Planet. June 27, 2006. Teacher Erin Gruwell inspires her PBS Video (2006) high school students to confront intolerance "Zimbabwe : shadows and lies" and violence in their own lives by reading reports on the crisis in Zimbabwe. "Mexico : about war, atrocities, and human rights a death in the desert" tells the story of the abuses. As a result of this project, her death Matías Juan Garcia Zavaleta, who students have taken a journey which died trying to illegally enter the United included meeting with Holocaust survivors, States, and the effects of his death on his Japanese internment camp victims, famous family. "China : the women's kingdom" looks writers and filmmakers, as well as writing at the culture of the Mosuo, a people in about how violence and intolerance have China who do not have conventional touched their own lives. marriages. Video Cassette ( 15 min.) 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) LB1631 .F74 2000 D862 .F76 2006

Fremont, U.S.A. Fundamentalist Fervor. Pluralism Project, c2008 Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Fremont, California, has been c2009 transformed by new immigration and is a city "Religious fundamentalism underpins of many religions. After 9/11, a Muslim some of the world's most intractable political woman was murdered on a Fremont street. problems as members of fundamentalist Discusses the community's response to this groups seek to influence both domestic and event and Fremont's future. international policy. After identifying general 1 videodisc (57 min., 11 min.) hallmarks of fundamentalist belief, this F869.F74 F74 2008 program places fundamentalist movements within the Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and From Dreams to Reality: A Tribute to Hindu religions into their cultural and Minority Inventors. historical contexts. Movements that are The Office: Distributed by National examined include the dispensationalist Audiovisual Center (1986) organization Christians United for Israel, the Pays tribute to minority inventors Jewish haredim, the Jewish settler group whose many inventions have contributed to Gush Emunim, Hamas, and Rashtriya American science, technology, and Swayamsevak Sangh, a key component of medicine. the Hindu "Saffron Brigade"—Container. 1 videocassette (28 min.) 1 videodisc (26 min.) T39 .F76 1986 BL238 .F84 2010

From Fields of Promise. Gandhi. Auburn Television (1993) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Discusses the efforts of descendants [2007] of slaves in Gee's Bend, Alabama, to own Chronicles the life of Gandhi part of the land where their ancestors beginning with his political activities in South worked. Discusses the history of the Africa during the late 1890's and ending with Pettway Plantation. his assassination at the hands of a Hindu Video Cassette ( 56 min.) extremist in 1948. Shows the development F 334 G44 F76 of his philosophy of non-violence as he leads the people of India to independence Frontline World. May 9, 2006. from the British. PBS Home Video (2006) 2 videodiscs (191 min.) Gaza, West Bank: inside Hamas PN1997 .G36 2007 Poland : Chopin's heart South Africa : play pump 1 videodisc (60 min.) DS119.76 F762 2006

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Ganienkeh: For the Generation to Come. Gender and Diversity: Female and Male Pacifica Tape Library Perspective. Mohawk efforts to restore the "true Microtraining Associates (2001) way" are seen in this examination of the Two keynote presentations on Mohawk community of Ganienkeh, NY. multiculturalism and gender given at the 2 Cassettes National Multicultural Conference and E 99 M8 G35 v. 1-2 Summit II of the American Psychological Association in Santa Barbara, California, The Garifuna Journey. January 2001. New Day Films (1998) 1 videodisc (75 min.) Presents the history, the language, HM1271 .G45 2001 food, music, dance and spirituality of the Garifuna culture. Genocide: From Biblical Times through Video Cassette (46 min.) the Ages. Guide (49 p.) Films for the Humanities and Sciences F1505.2.C3 G37 1998 (2002) A variety of experts analyze Biblical The Gates of Jerusalem: A History of the accounts and some of the earliest Holy City. documented examples of genocide, as in Questar Home Video (1996) the Athenian siege of Melos in 416 BC, to Traces the history of Jerusalem explore the psychology that motivates such through the eight gates that surround the violence. This grim survey looks at the Old City. extermination of Tasmanians, Native 2 Videocassettes (ca. 125 min.) Americans, Namibia's Herero tribe, and the DS109.9 .G37 1996 pt.1 Armenians. DS109.9 .G37 1996 pt.2 Video Cassette ( 57 min.) HV6322.7 G453 2002 Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family, 1948-1984. German Americans. New Day Films (1994) Schlessinger Video Prod. (1993) Follows the daily routine of one Video on the history of the German Palestinian family confined to the Jabalia Americans that is one of a 15-part series refugee camp in Gaza, showing their living that celebrates the heritage of different quarters, the local school, and hospital in cultural groups by tracing the history of their order to personalize the Arab-Israeli conflict. emigration to North America. Adapted from Video Cassette ( 1 hr 22 min.) the "Peoples of North America" series of DS153.55.P34 G38 1998 books by Chelsea House Publishers Video Cassette ( 30 min.) Gaza Strip. E 184 G3 G32 Arab Film Distribution (2006) American filmmaker James Longley Geronimo: His Story. follows a range of Palestinian Arabs living in Filmmakers Library (1996) the Gaza Strip and events following the A portrait of what it is like to be an election of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel "illegal alien". Follows him from his U.S. life Sharon, including the first major armed to his ancestral home in Mexico, where half incursion by the Israeli Army (IDF) forces in of the village's 1500 people have migrated spring 2001. Filmed almost entirely in the to the U.S. vérite style without narration and with little Video Cassette ( 28 min.) explanation. This documentary focuses on HD 8081 M6 G47 ordinary Palestinians rather than politicians presenting a rare look inside the stark realities of Palestinian life and death under Israeli military. 1 videodisc (74 min.) DS113.7 .G39 2006

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Ghosts of Rwanda. Goin' Back to T-Town. PBS Home Video (2005) PBS (1992) Through interviews with key Recalls Greenwood, the black government officials, diplomats, soldiers, community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Traces the and survivors, this documentary examines history of African Americans in Oklahoma the state-sponsored genocide in Rwanda in from before the Civil War to the early 1900s. 1994. Explores the reasons why the The black residents of T-Town relive their international community and the United community's rise and ultimate decline in the States did not intervene as Hutu extremists '60s. killed some 800,000 Tutsis. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) F 704 T92 G63 DT450.435 .G56 2005 Goin' to Chicago. Girl Gangs. California Newsreel (1994) KNPR (1993) A group of longtime Chicago Discusses participation in youth residents returns to Greenville, Mississippi, gangs by girls. for a reunion with family and friends. Cassette Participants talk about their lives and their HV6439 U6 G57 reasons for moving north. Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 10 min.) Go Back to Mexico! F 548.9 N4 G63 PBS (1994) America continues to lose the battle The Golden Cage: A Story of California's against illegal immigration. In 1992, 2.5 Farmworkers. illegal immigrants came here. How long can Filmakers Library (1989) it go on? How real are the fears about Chronicles the experiences of economic costs and social and political Mexican farmworkers in California and their disruption? isolation in a land of plenty. Traces the Video Cassette ( 58 min.) history of the United Farmworkers Union. JV 6493 G63 Shows the tactics used by companies to evade using union labor. God is Angry: The Black Power Video Cassette ( 29 min.) Movement. HD 1527 C2 J38 Filmmakers Library Looks at what Farrakhan means to Golden Venture. black society and how he came to his Hillcrest Films (2006) leadership role. Traces the history of the The film raises important questions black struggle for power. about America's policy toward those who Video Cassette ( 57 min.) come in search of freedom and a better life. E 185.615 G57 A case study in the politics of immigration, the multi-layered narrative also explores the God's Alcatraz. culture of China's Fujian province, cross- Filmmakers Library ideological coalition building and the role art Eighteen years ago, Dr. Johnny Ray can play in the struggle for human rights. Youngblood arrived in New Lots in East 1 videodisc (70 min.) Brooklyn, a community plagued with chronic JV6483 .C64 2006 unemployment, violence and drug abuse. He instilled self-esteem in his congregation and taught them about pride and dignity. Video Cassette ( 36 min.) F128.9 N3 G63

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Goree: Door of No Return. Greek Americans. Films for the Humanities (1992) Schlessinger Video Prod. (1993) Tells the history of the slave trade: the Video on the history of Greek arrival of the first Europeans in Africa, the Americans that is one of a 15-part series origins of slavery in the Americas, the that celebrates the heritage of different development of Goree Island as a center of cultural groups by tracing the history of their the slave trade, the wealthy women who emigration to North America. Adapted from controlled the slave trade on the island. the "Peoples of North America" series of Video Cassette ( 30 min.) books by Chelsea House Publishers. HT 1332 G67 Video Cassette ( 30 min.) E 184 G7 G67 Great American Indian Speeches. Caedmon (1976) Growing Up in Modern Japan. 2 Cassettes Clearvue & SVE (2005) E 98 07 G7 "Follows two Japanese children who lead very different lives: Eri lives in Nagoya, Great Black Women. one of the largest Japanese cities, and Raki Films for the Humanities (1991) lives in the small farming village of Obara. Looks at women who succeeded Through interviews with Eri and Raki, their despite the odds against them. Asks what families, their teachers, and their friends, made them tick, what drove them to students will be acquainted with Japanese challenge prejudice, and what enabled them schools, games, homes, and food and will to succeed. be encouraged to discuss how these Video Cassette ( 52 min.) lifestyles differ from the ones they lead"-- E 185.96 G68 Publisher's website. 1 videodisc (25 min.) Great Speeches. DS821 .G76 2005 Educational Video Group (1985) Contains "I Have A Dream" by Martin Growing Up in the World Next Door. Luther King Jr. Bullfrog Films (1989) Video Cassette ( 20 min.) Explores the lives of three teenagers PN 6122 G74 vol. 1 from Nepal, Kenya, and St. Vincent. Discusses the role of international The Great Spirit and Peyote. development projects and how they affect Pacifica Tape Library life. An interview with Truman Daily of the Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Native American Church. HQ 799 D44 G76 Cassette E 98 R3 D35 Guatemala: The Human Price of Coffee. Films for the Humanities & Sciences The Great Step Forward: China Women in (2005) the 20th Century. Owners of small coffee Films for the Humanities and Sciences farms and members of the coffee (2003) cooperative Manos Campesinas are A two-part look at how Chinese interviewed in this documentary about coffee women broke with their age-old traditions of production in Guatemala. Thanks to the Fair subservience and prejudice to confront Trade Market, a European organization that issues and agitate for reforms in the 20th guarantees a price for the farmers and finds century. buyers, cooperative members are earning [pt.1] From Confucius to Mao 40% more than independent small farmers [pt.2] From Mao towards full equality who sell on the local market. 2 videodiscs (109 min.) 1 videodisc (26 min.) HQ1767 .G74 2003 pt.1 & 2 HD9199.G82 G87 2005

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Gum Sahn: Changing Values in the Harlem Diary. Community--Chinese American. Discovery Video (1996) National Public Radio. Nine Harlem youths tell the true story American impact on Chinese of their lives. traditions and values. Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 40 min.) Cassette E 128.9 N3 H28 E 184 C5 G85 Hate Mail. The Gypsies of Svinia. Media Projects (1992) Filmakers Discussion of racism on a talk show Looks at the impoverished Roma on KLIF talk radio in Dallas. Includes people (Gypsies) in Eastern Slovakia and the efforts and members of the KKK discussing racism to improve their lot. and prejudice. Video Cassette ( 58 min.) Video Cassette ( 29 min.) DX 222.5 G86 E 185.615 H33

Haiti: Killing the Dream. Havasupai Crowing Rooster Prod. (1992) Havasupai Tribal Council (1987) Presents an overview of the political A presentation of the heart of the history of the Haitian people and their Grand Canyon. The culture of the people is current struggle for self-rule. Includes found in the majestic canyon walls and presidency of Jean-Bertrand Aristide and thundering waterfalls. discussion of the situation of Haitian Video Cassette ( 20 min.) refugees in the United States. F 788 P45 Video Cassette F 1928.2 H32 Healing the water Water Education Foundation (2001?) Haiti's Black Boat People. Pyramid Lake has long been the focal National Public Radio (1981) point of a tug-of-war between water Cassette stakeholders. There is competition for water HV 640.5 H3 in this arid land among Native Americans, farmers, urban users, environmentalists and Half of Anything. the people of Nevada and California. New JNH Video Production (2005) agreements to allocate the water have been A documentary that poses the made and, if terms can be worked out, the question "What is a REAL Indian?" to four solutions found in Nevada could provide participants who examine the notion of how answer for the rest of the West. Indian identity is constructed from their Video Cassette ( 56 min.) individual and often very personal HD1695.T7 H42 2001 perspectives. Struggling at times to answer the question, they reveal the difficulty of The Heart Broken in Half. determining what identity is. Siegel Prod. (1991) 1 videocassette (25 min.) A face-to-face encounter with gang E98.E85 H34 2005 members in Chicago. They guide the viewer through their "hood" and offer a sobering Happy to Be Nappy: and Other Stories of critique of gang life. Me. Video Cassette ( 57 min.) HBO Video, [2005] HV 6439 U5 H42 Today there are more reasons than ever for families to explore and celebrate diversity. Introduce your family to children who are not only celebrating how they are unique, but who are also learning from and appreciating the differences in others. 1 videodisc (ca. 30 min.) HT1521 .H36 2005

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Help Wanted: Dynamics of the EU Labor Hispanic Americans: The New Frontier. Market. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Films for the Humanities & Sciences, (1998) c2007 Dozens of Hispanics explore what it Examines proposed and existing means to be Hispanic American. guest worker programs designed to address 1. Latin and African Americans : friends the results of globalization, low birth rate and or foes? an aging labor force. Looks at immigrant 2. Hispanic education at the crossroads education, ambition and self-employment, 3. The changing role of Hispanic worker job security and the growth of sex women industries. 4. Hispanics in the media 1 videodisc (26 min.) 5. Hispanic Americans : the second HD8378.5.A2 H45 2007 generation 6. Hispanic entrepreneurs : against all Heroes Hispanos. odds The History Channel 7. Hispanic Americans : one or many Relates the significant military cultures? contributions of Hispanic Americans from 7 Video Cassettes (44 min ea) 1775 to 1993. E184.S75 H558 1998 Video Cassette (2 hrs. 30 min.) UB 418 H57 H47 Hispanics in America. History Channel ; New York : Hidden Scars. Distributed in the U.S. by New Video University of California (1995) Group, (1998) Examines the political epidemic of A history of the recent immigration of torture in Guatemala. Documents Miguel’s, Hispanics to the United States, beginning a Quiche Maya Indian, shattering with the Cuban exiles in 1959. experience and continuing effects on his life. 1 videodisc (50 min.) He was falsely accused of collaborating with E184.S75 H587 1998 guerrillas, tortured for days and then dumped on a roadside. Provides a broad Hispanics in Las Vegas. overview of the scope of torture in Latin Real to Reel Series (1988) America and on the difficulties facing Discusses the Hispanic population refugees in the U.S. including the cultural, educational, Video Cassette ( 50 min.) employment, and political problems they HV 8599 G9 H53 face. Video Cassette ( 30 min.) F 850 S75 H58

History and Culture of Puerto Rico. Video Knowledge (19??) Historic and cultural documentary about Puerto Rico. Bilingual: English-Spanish. Video Cassette ( 45 min.) F 1971 P83

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History of American Cuisine. A History of Black Achievement in Learning ZoneXpress, c2006 America. An introductory overview considers Ambrose Video Pub., c2005 the regions of the United States, explaining This original eight-part series on four how regional cuisines developed in volumes documents black achievement in response to geography (which determined American history, its defining role in the what foods were available) and ethnology growth of the country, and its influence on (the traditional foodways of the regions' current events. The series highlights the immigrant ethnic groups). A narrator, many contributions of black Americans that executive chef, and historian weave together have influenced and shaped the history of a story of food history from 1519 until the the United States. present. vol. 1. program 1. Settling the New 1 videodisc (22 min.) + 1 guide (5 p.) World and founding the United States of TX715 .H66 2006 America ; program 2. Emergence of the black hero The History of American Cuisine. vol. 2. program 3. The fight for Learning Zone Express (2000) freedom ; program 4. Blacks enter the An introductory overview considers Gilded Age the regions of the United States, explaining vol. 3. program 5. The foundation for how regional cuisines developed in equality ; program 6. Depression and war response to geography (which determined vol. 4. program 7. Civil rights ; what foods were available) and ethnology program 8. A new age (the traditional foodways of the regions 4 videodiscs (216 min.) immigrant ethnic groups). A narrator, E185 .H555 2005 executive chef, and historian weave together a story of food history in the United States from 1519 until the present. 1 videocassette (22 min.) + 5 p. of worksheets in folder TX715 .H5748

A History of American Indian Achievement. Ambrose Video Publishing, c2008 This original, eight-part series on four volumes, documents the history of American Indian achievement, its defining role in the growth of the country, and its influence on current events. The series highlights the many contributions of American Indians that have influenced and shaped the history of the United States. 4 videodiscs (240 min.) E77 .H593 2008

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A History of Hispanic Achievement in H-2 Worker. America. First Run/Icarus Films (1990) Ambrose Video, c2006 Examines the exploitation of A History of Hispanic Achievement in Jamaican laborers by the Florida sugar cane America is a story that began more than 500 industry. years ago when Christopher Columbus Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 7 min.) stepped onto the fertile shores of "the New HD 8039. S86 U58 World." It is a story rich with the stunning achievements, heroic exploits, ceaseless The Honour of All. courage and the remarkable discoveries of Four Directions International (1985-1986) Hispanic immigrants from all over the world. Part 1 dramatizes the problems of the From the American Revolutionary War to the Shuswap Indians of British Columbia, War in Iraq, Hispanic Americans have focusing on their dependence on alcohol served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Hispanics and their attempts to begin a sobriety have contributed to the expansion West, and program. Part 2 shows through personal to advancements in medicine, science, interviews the results of the community's politics, sports, entertainment, journalism, effort to recover from alcoholism and drug education, civil rights and all facets of abuse. Part 3 is a videotape of a American society. conference, co-sponsored by the Alkali Lake vol. 1. 1492-1719 (62 min): program Indian Band and the Four Worlds 1. Spain comes to the new world ; program Development Project, aiming to eliminate 2. Spanish American exploration and substance abuse from native societies. colonization 3 videocassettes (125 min.) vol. 2. 1720-1847 (56 min.): program E99.S45 H65 1985 pts. 1 – 2 3. Spanish Americans move toward independence ; program 4. A new Hispanic Honorable Nations: The Seneca's Land identity emerges Rights. vol. 3. 1848-1959 (60 min.): program Filmakers Library (1992) 5. Hispanics become United States citizens ; Salamanca is the only city in the U.S. program 6. Hispanics become an American that is situated entirely on land owned by minority Native Americans. For 99 years, the vol. 4. 1959 - 2007 (59 min.): program townspeople rented the land upon which 7. Emergence of a unique Hispanic culture ; their homes stand from the Seneca Indians, program 8. Era of the Hispanic American but in 1991 the lease expired. Follows five hero begins years of negotiations, as the Seneca Indians 4 videodiscs (237 min.) and the townspeople defend their positions. E184.S75 H655 2006 Video Cassette ( 54 min.) E 99 S3 H65 Hitting Sticks, Healing Hearts. River Tracks Prod. (1991) The most intense spiritual ceremony of Interior Alaska. Requested by the elders of Minto village as a means of transmitting the ritual significance of memorial potlatch to others. Video Cassette ( 59 min.) E 99 A86 H57

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How the West Was Lost. I Will Fight No More Forever. Discovery Networks (1993) Questar (1990) Vol. 1. Clash of Cultures: the defeat This reenactment accurately portrays and demoralization of the Navajo. Navajo the plight of the Nez Perce in their 1700 descendants recount their ancestors' 300 mile, 108 day fighting retreat from the mile forced march. Wallowa Valley of Idaho and Oregon. I Will Fight No More Forever: Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 49 min.) recounts the Nez Perce tribe's 1500 mile PN 1995.9 H5 I22 flight towards Canada for freedom. E 78 W5 C43 Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice. Vol. 2. Always the Enemy: PBS (1989) descendants of warriors who fought with Wells personal sense of integrity and Cochise and Geronimo recount the heroic justice carried her into a lifelong struggle of the Apache nations, which crusade against racism, sexism, and other endured 27 years as prisoners of war. indignities. She wrote one of the first The Only Good Indian is a Dead studies on mob violence entitled " The Red Indian: unprovoked massacres of Record" and led an anti-lynching campaign Cheyennes at Sand Creek and Washita that took her to the capitals of urban turned them into a vengeful tribe. Slaughter America and Europe. of the buffalo herds destroyed the Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Cheyenne's way of life. E 78 W5 A48 E 185.97 B26 I33 Vol. 3. A Good Day to Die: led by Crazy Horse, Red Cloud and sitting Bull, the Identities: Culture and Nationality in Lakotas rebelled against gold seekers Europe Today. pushing into their land. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Kill the Indian, Save the Man: c2007 Lakotas and Northern Cheyenne resisted Program features observations from efforts to force them to reservations. African, Asian, Middle Eastern immigrants Hysteria among whites over the Lakotas' on their opinion on living in two worlds and ritualistic ghost dance exploded into a clash the problems that arise as a result. Deals at Wounded Knee. E 78 W5 G66 with balancing assimilation and preserving 3 Video Cassettes ( 1 hr. 40 min.ea)) ones cultural heritage. 1 videodisc (28 min.) How to Behave. HM1271 .I34 2007 Icarus Films (1987) A film on the subject of "tu-te" or If the Mango Tree Could Speak. kindness. Explores the realities behind the New Day Film Library (1993) nationalistic slogans to reveal troubling A portrait of ten boys and girls, ages scenes of Vietnamese life in a society which 12 to 15, growing up in the midst of war in seems no longer able to define Guatemala and El Salvador. The children humanitarianism or greed. talk about war and peace, justice, ethnic Video Cassette ( 43 min.) identity, friendship, and marriage. HN 700.5 Z9 M6 Video Cassette ( 58 min.) Guide Hunters and Bombers: The Innu Fight HQ 784 W3 I38 Back. Films for the Humanities (198?) Iisaw. The Innu of Labrador Quebec are Clearwater Publishing Co. fighting back against the Dutch, German, Singing tales that reinforce the Hopi and British air forces which use the region ethic by describing what happens to those for supersonic low-level bomber training. who shirk hard work. Video Cassette ( 52 min.) Video Cassette (3/4", 18 min.) E 99 M87 H85 E 99 H7 I37

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I'll Make Me a World. Immigrants: The American Dream: Told PBS Video by the Men and Women Who Lived It. Profiles Afro-American musicians, Caedmon (1974) artists and authors throughout twentieth 2 Cassettes century America. E 184 Al I5 1. Lift every voice 2. Without fear or shame Immigration and Labor. 3. Bright like a sun Pacifica Tape Library (1982) 4. The dream keepers A panel discussion on undocumented 5. Not a rhyme time workers in the American labor force. 6. The freedom you will take Cassette (57 min.) 6 Video Cassettes ( 1 hr. ea) HD 8081 M6 I45 Guide (7 p.) Index Immigration Reform. E185 .I45 1999 Media and Society Seminars Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism I'm Normal, You're Weird! Understanding (1984) Other Cultures. Covers criteria for admitting Learning Seed (1998) foreigners into the U.S., legal aliens' rights Examines the differences between to social services, employers' the world's cultures and how different responsibilities in hiring undocumented interpretations of same or similar actions or persons, and the extent to which illegal reactions can affect abilities of people to aliens have rights. interact successfully. Video Cassette (3/4", 1 hr.) Video Cassette ( 23 min.) JK 331 I45 Guide (16 p.) GN 345.65 I4 In Black and White. California Newsreel (1992) Images of Mexican Los Angeles. 1. Charles Johnson (28 min.) Cinema Guild (1992) PS 3560 O3735 Z463 Surveys the history of the Mexican 2. Gloria Naylor (22 min.) community in the Los Angeles basin. PS 3564 A895 Z465 Begins with the establishment of the city in 3. Toni Morrison (25 min.) 1781 and moves forward to the 20th century PS 3563 O8749 Z469 growth of the Mexican population and their 4. Alice Walker (30 min.) involvement in modern day civil rights PS 3573 A425 Z4632 struggles. 5. August Wilson (21 min.) Video Cassette ( 28 min.) PS 3573 I45677 Z463 F 869 L89 M54 6. John Wideman (27 min.) PS 3573 I26 Z467 Imagining Indians. See summaries in Literature section. Documentary Educational (1992) 6 Video Cassettes Represents a Native American's view of the disparity between self-perception and the white culture's principally Hollywood inspired interpretations of American Indians. Video Cassette ( 57 min.) E 98 E85 I42

The Immigrant Experience. National Public Radio (1984) Muslim immigrants to the U.S. share their experiences of making new lives in this country. Cassette (Side 2, 30 min.) BP 50 W67 pt. 5

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In No One's Shadow : Filipinos in In the Name of Love. America. New Day Films, c2002 Distributed by NAATA (1995) Russia's dismal post-Soviet economy Filipinos are the largest Asian has given rise to widespread alcoholism, American population in the U.S. today and depression, and divorce. One consequence have played a key role in American history, is that many desperate young Russian having been closely linked with agriculture women turn to marriage agencies in a bid to and the American economy. This film escape--those linking Russian women with reviews the contributions that Filipinos have "rich" American men are thriving. Filmed made to American culture and history, and principally in St. Petersburg over several the hard work and racial discrimination that years, this film examines the motivations of they have faced since the 1920's when they two agency heads and follows several of began to immigrate to the U.S. in large these women as they seek a brighter future. numbers. Also looks at their efforts to Told from all these women's point of view, preserve their cultural and social life within this is an often brilliant, funny, and the United States. unflinching examination of a cultural reality: 1 Video Cassette (29 min.) the 'mail-order bride' with a clear-eyed E184.F4 I5 1995 certainty about what she is doing, and why. 1 videodisc (58 min.) In the Light of Reverence. HQ1032 .I5 2002 Bullfrog Films (2002) Across the USA, Native Americans In the Shadow of the Law. are struggling to protect their sacred places. University of California Media Center Religious freedom, so valued in America, is (1990) not guaranteed to those who practice land- Explores the daily lives of four based religions. This film discusses the families who have lived illegally in the U.S. struggles of three indigenous communities for many years. Shows their constant fear to protect their sacred sites from rock of apprehension and their vulnerability to climbers, tourists, strip-mining, development exploitation by those who capitalize on their and New Age religious practitioners. illegal status. Captures the legal, social, and 1 videodisc (73 min.) 1 guide (48 p.) cultural obstacles these people have to E98.R3 I5 2002 overcome. Video Cassette ( 58 min.) In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee. E 184 M5 I52 New Day Films, c2010 "Her passport said she was Cha Jung In the White Man's Image. Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40 PBS (1991) year deception for a Korean adoptee who Native Americans who attended the came to the US in 1966. Told to keep her Carlisle School for Indian Students help tell true identity a secret from her new American the story of cultural genocide and the family, this 8 year old girl quickly forgot she school's "civilizing" mission. The was ever anyone else. But why had her consequences for a generation of Indians identity been switched? And who was the who did not become "imitation white men" real Cha Jung Hee? In the Matter of Cha are explained. Jung Hee is the search to find the answers, Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) as acclaimed filmmaker Deann Borshay E 97.6 C2 I52 Liem (First person plural, PBS 2000) returns to her native Korea to find her "double," the mysterious girl whose place she took in America. As seen on PBS on the award- winning series, Point of View (POV)"— Container. 1 videodisc (62 min.) HV874.82.L54 I5 2010

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In Whose Honor? Indian Country. New Day Films (1997) PBS (1988) A look at the long-running practice of Examines life on the Quinault Indian "honoring" American Indians by using them Reservation in Washington State. Assesses as mascots and nicknames in sports. the achievements and failures of its leader, Examines the issues of race, stereotypes, Joe DeLaCruz. Explores why the minority representation and the effects of combination of strong tribal leadership and mass-media imagery. substantial federal support has failed to Video Cassette ( 46 min.) improve the quality of life on Indian E 98 E85 I52 reservations. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Inca Music, Travels and Rituals. E 99 Q6 I53 Filmakers Library (2002) "Two Peruvian musicians, Ebert and Indian Country Diaries. Jabier, have dedicated their lives to Native American Public researching the ancient musical traditions of Telecommunications (2006) Peru. Ebert reproduces the old instruments, "Indian country diaries is a two- using natural materials. He also collects the program series exploring the challenges music for the Peruvian Institute for Culture facing Native Americans today"—Container. and teaches it to children so it will survive."-- Program 1. Seat at the drum / Container producer and writer, Sam Hurst ; writer, 1 Video Cassette (30 min.) Mark Anthony Rolo F3429.3.F6 I53 2002 Program 2. Spiral of fire / producer and director, Carol Cornsilk ; Incident at Oglala. writer, LeAnne Howe Carolco Home Video (1991) 1 videodisc (172 min.) In 1975, armed FBI agents illegally E98.U72 I53 2006 entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. One Native American and two FBI agents Indians and the Law. were killed. Leonard Peltier was convicted Pt. 1 Termination of murder. His case has been dogged with Pt. 2 Fishing & Land controversy and this is his story. Pt. 3 Water Video Cassette ( 1hr. 30 min.) Pt 4 Sovereignty PN 1995.9 D6 I52 2 Video Cassettes ( 30 min. per program) India. E 93 I53 pt. 1-2 New Dimension Media (2005) Explores the ways the ethnic Indictments for the Innocent. backgrounds of India's peoples, religions Pacifica Tape Library (197?) and landscape have influenced modern Results of the 1975 Wounded Knee India. occupation. 1 videodisc (30 min.) Cassette DS414.2 .I53 2005 E99 O3 I53

The Indian and His Homeland. Indigeni: Native Women: Politics. Holiday Video Library (1990) Motion Visual (1995) Provides a 300 year survey of the Discusses the repression of First impact of European civilization on the New Nations women in Canada under European World -- in particular, its devastating effect dominance. Native women from British on the lives and cultures of the American Columbia talk about what self-government Indians. means to them and how they hope to see it Video Cassette ( 30 min.) implemented. Highlights the Sechelt Band, NE 962 N67 I53 the first to receive self-government in B.C., and its accomplishments. 1 videocassette (24 min.) E92 .I53 1995

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Inspirations. Invisible Las Vegas. Films for the Humanities (1991) Desert Rose Productions, (2006) In low income neighborhoods "Recounts t he history of West Las throughout the nation, local leaders are Vegas, emphasizing the town's development pulling together to improve the quality of life by thousands of blacks from the Deep South by addressing issues such as child care, who came to seek a better way of life only to urban violence, black-on-black crime, find other forms of racism. Thees African housing, teenage pregnancy, economic Americans struggled and ultimately inequities, and community development. overcame but much of their history, which Video Cassette ( 52 min.) has been forgotten amidst the spectacle of E 185.86 I57 Las Vegas' neon lights"—Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) Into the Circle: An Introduction to Native F849.L35 I58 2006 American Powwows. Full Circle Communications (1992) Irish Americans. An introduction to Oklahoma Schlessinger Video Prod. (1993) powwows including an explanation of the Video on the history of Irish meaning of powwow in Indian culture, how it Americans that is one of a 15-part series has evolved, the role of the drum, the head that celebrates the heritage of different singer and the songs in powwows and cultural groups by tracing the history of their related celebrations. Includes excerpts of emigration to North America. Adapted from dances at powwows across Oklahoma and the "Peoples of North America" series of discusses how best to enjoy attending a books by Chelsea House Publishers. powwow Video Cassette ( 30 min.) 1 Video Cassette (58 min.) E 184 I6 I72 E98.P86 I57 1992 Islam: Empire of Faith Introducing South America. PBS Video (2000) EVN (1995) Documents the rise and growth of An overview of the South American Islam throughout the world, from the birth of continent. Highlights cultural traditions, the Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century people, industries, and landscape. through the peak of the Ottoman Empire Video Cassette ( 22 min.) 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of F 2224 I57 Islamic civilization on world history and culture. Invasions. 1. Messenger Films for the Humanities (1993) 2. Awakening Tells of the Panara of Brazil, whose 3. Ottomans first contact with whites came in 1971. 3 Video Cassettes ( 1 hr ea) Within four years, 90% of the native BP50 .I84 2000 population had died from foreign diseases to which the Panara had no immunity. Islam, The Veil and the Future. Video Cassette ( 28 min.) PBS (1980) E 121 I58 Discusses how the Islamic world deals with marriage, adultery, and divorce, Invisible Indians: Mixtec Farmworkers in as well as, such issues as voting rights for California. women and proper feminine dress. University of California (1995) Video Cassette ( 29 min.) Looks at the history, culture, and HQ 1726.5 I85 current social and economic conditions of the Mixtec people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Examines the factors that cause increasing numbers of Mixtecs to become migrants. Video Cassette ( 43 min.) HD 1527 C2 I58

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Island of Shadows: D'Arcy Island Leper The Issue is Race. Colony, 1891-1924. Films for the Humanities (1992) Filmwest Associates (2000) This program combines a town hall A documentary about the treatment of format with documentary video segments to Chinese dying of leprosy in Canada and explore the policy choices facing the nation their incarceration on D'Arcy Island off the on what may be our most persistent and west coast of British Columbia. When the critical domestic problem. Discussion first case of leprosy appeared among focuses on whether race relations have Chinese laborers in the early 1890s, civil improved or degenerated in the past 25 officials panicked. Although medical officials years and questions what can be done. knew that leprosy is not seriously Video Cassette ( 2 hr.) contagious, the victims were banished to the E 184 A1 I82 virtually "escape-proof" island. Their only contact with the outside world was the visit Italian Americans. of a supply ship every three months bringing Schlessinger Video Prod. (1993) food, clothing, opium and coffins. The dying Video on the history of the Italian were to bury the dead themselves. Although Americans that is one of a 15-part series medical officers condemned the conditions, that celebrates the heritage of different nothing was done. The story focuses on Lim cultural groups by tracing the history of their Sam, a composite character emblematic of emigration to North America. Adapted from the Chinese men banished to D'Arcy Island. the "Peoples of North America" series of The conditions for the Chinese on the island books by Chelsea House Publishers. contrasted starkly with conditions at Video Cassette ( 30 min.) Canada's other leper hospital in Tracadie, E 184 I8 I73 N.B., where nuns looked after the patients, a physician was resident and meals were Itam Hakim, Hopiit: In Recognition of the prepared by a cook. Hopi Tricenntenial. 1 Video Cassette (48 min.) Documentary Educational Resources, RA644.L3 I75 2000 c2007 Storyteller Ross Macaya tells stories Israel. from the myths and history of the Hopi Films for the Humanities & Sciences people. Illustrated with dramatic nature (2004) photography of the Southwest and scenes "This jarring program chiefly uses the from Hopi daily life and ritual. ideological battle between ultra-orthodox 1 videodisc (58 min.) Jews and Zionists to examine the division E99.H7 I83 2007 between religion and politics in Israel. Leaders of religious parties attack the It Can Be Done. thinking of Tommy Lapid, minister of justice KNPB (1994) and leader of Shinui, the main party Part one tells the story of the spirited advocating secularism. In addition, candid Paiute woman who fought to help her people firsthand accounts illustrate the identity adjust to the domination of the white settlers. crises faced by many Israeli Arabs. Also Video Cassette (58 min.) featured are perspectives of neutral Jews E 99 P2 H724 from Poland to Morocco, Ethiopia to Russia, who have emigrated to the progressive city of Ashdod to escape the otherwise dominant religious and secular debate"—Container. 1 videodisc (37 min.) BM390 .I77 2004

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Jan Matzeliger. Joel Barker's Wealth, Innovation & The Museum: Distributed by National Diversity. Audiovisual Center (1989) Star Thrower Distribution (2000) Presents the life of Jan E. Matzeliger, Discusses the idea that an a half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man, organization will succeed only when people who despite prejudice in Massachusetts collaborate with individuals and enterprises where he lived, revolutionized the shoe that are different form themselves. industry by inventing a machine that could Video Cassette ( 31 min.) duplicate the movement of the human hand 1 CD in making shoes. His machine has stood the Guide test of time and his principles for design are Workbook still in use. 11 Cards 1 videocassette (5 min.) HF5549.5.M5 J64 2000 HD9787.U64 M37 1989 The Journey. The Jayson Blair Story: Favoritism and Ergo Media (1989) Plagiarism at The New York Times. A young Russian boy and an Films for the Humanities & Sciences American Jewish engineer meet in (2006) Leningrad during WW II and form a "African-American journalist Jayson friendship. Explores Jewish values and Blair has been pilloried as the raises questions about the relationship personification of affirmative action out of between Jewish education and identity. control. Was it race that fueled his rapid Video Cassette ( 34 min.) promotions at the New York Times and BM 707 J68 prompted management to essentially ignore reports of his inaccurate work? In this ABC Journey to America. News program, correspondent Bob PBS (1990) Jamieson chronicles the sensational rise A tribute to the over 12 million men, and fall of Jayson Blair" – Container. women, and children who made the 1 videodisc (23 min.) torturous journey from the old world to the PN4888.E8 J39 2006 new from 1890-1920. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) The Japanese Tea Ceremony. E 184 A1 J683 Films for the Humanities (1993) This program is devoted to the Omote Just Black? Sen-ke school and shows the way in which Filmakers Library its traditions are handed down. Several young men and women of Video Cassette ( 32 min.) mixed racial heritage share their struggle to GT 2912 O4 J36 establish, acquire and assert a racial identity. Each one has one black parent, Jerusalem: Within These Walls. and a white, Asian or Hispanic second National Geographic Society (1986) parent. Fountainhead of three religions, the Video Cassette ( 57 min.) ancient heart of Jerusalem is a tiny world HQ 777.9 J87 inside the modern city. Meet some of the people choose to coexist within its bounds Kashia Men's Dances: Southwestern while preserving their cultural differences. Pomo Indians. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) University of California (196?) G3 N37 C43 Records four authentic northern California Pomo men's dances performed in costumes and headdresses. Video Cassette ( 40 min.) E 99 P65 K37

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Keepers of the Water. Kim Phuc. A. Gedicks (1996) Icarus Films (1985) Documents the struggle to keep the During the war that devastated her head waters of the Wolf River, a pristine country, Kim Phuc was hit by a napalm river in Wisconsin and the homeland of the bomb. A picture of her running naked down Sokaogon Mole Lake Chippewa tribe, from a country road became world famous. This being polluted by a proposed sulfide mine. is the story of that girl, now a spirited young Video Cassette ( 39 min)) woman, trying to surmount the effects of the GB705.W6 K43 1996 disaster which befell her. Video Cassette ( 25 min.) Keten van liefde = Chain of Love. DS 559.5 K55 First Run/Icarus Films (2001) "Chain of love is a film about the [King] Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: His Philippines' second largest export product-- great speeches in their original and maternal love [domestic workers]--and how complete form this export affects the women involved, their MCA (1986) families in the Philippines, and families in 1. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (18 min.) the West."--Container 2. We Shall Overcome - Liz Lands 1 Video Cassette (50 min.) (3 min.) HD6072.2.P6 K47 2001 3. Drum Major Instinct Sermon (20 min.) The Killing Floor. 4. He's Got The Whole World In His Kino on Video, c1997 Hands - Liz Lands (3 min.) Frank Custer is a young black man 5. Memphis Tennessee, April 3, 1968 from rural Mississippi who, in 1917, came (3 min.) north to make his fortune at the beginning of 6. May What He Lived for Live - Liz World War I. There, the only job he can get Lands (3 min.) is at one of Chicago's meat-packing plants, Compact Disc working in the slaughtering area called the E 185.61 K53 killing floor, where he is caught up in a war between the "packers" and those trying to King: Go Beyond the Dream to Discover form a labor union. Desiring to rise off "the the Man. floor" to a better position as a butcher, Frank A &E Television Networks 2008 joins the whites in their struggle, hoping to Forty years after Martin Luther King's learn from them along the way. With the assassination, newsman Tom Brokaw, takes union becoming more organized and the viewers through the extraordinary life and government ordering raises for the workers, times of America's civil rights visionary. Go Frank sends for his wife and family to share beyond the legend to portray the man, the his success. But the reluctance of many questions, the myths, and the relevance of blacks to join the union causes unrest-- Dr. King's message in today's world. resulting in the vicious race riots of 1919. 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) Soon, the blood of the killing floor runs onto E185.97.K5 K55 2008 the streets of Chicago's South Side. 1 videocassette (118 min.) [King] The Speeches of Martin Luther PN1997.85 .K54 King. MPI Home Video (1990) Presents a collection of Martin Luther King's major speeches and minor asides, tracing the development of his oratorical style. Video Cassette ( 1 hr) E185.97.K5 A25 1990

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The Kiowa Migration. Lakota Woman. Pacifica Tape Library (197?) Turner Home Entertainment (1994) N. Scott Momaday reads from The True story of the 1973 uprising that Way to Rainy Mountain. united Native Americans in their fight for Cassette (42 min.) survival and Mary Crow Dog's part in it. E 99 K5 M642 Video Cassette ( 1 hr 58 min)) PN1995.9.B55 L33 1994 KKK: Hate Crimes in America. A & E Home Video (1996) The Language You Cry In. Examines the evolution of the Ku Klux California Newsreel (1998) Klan, its many civil suits and the riveting Traces the history of a burial hymn of events that led to the Mississippi burning the Mende people brought by slaves to the case of 1964. rice plantations of the Southeast coast. Video Cassette ( 50 min.) Video Cassette ( 52 min.) HS 2330 K63 K22 DT516.45.M45 L35 1999

The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America. Larger Than Life. Films Inc. (1989) Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Shows the 120 year infamy of the Ku (2005) Klux Klan's reign of terror. Exposes the This program travels through the spread of the Klan's influence, membership, landscape of Indian cinema, providing and savagery today. contrasts and comparisons with its Video Cassette ( 30 min.) counterpart in the west. Interviews with stars HS 2330 K63 K53 Shah Rukh Kahn and Manisha Koirala examine the pressures of Indian film acting. The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History. 1 videodisc (57 min.) A&E Television Networks (2005) PN1993.5.I8 L37 2005 Authors David M. Chalmers (Hooded Americanism) and Wyn Craig Wade (The Larry Lebby and Stone Lithography. Fiery Cross) trace the history of the Klan The Museum: Distributed by National from its birth in 1866 to the present. Audiovisual Center (1983) 1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) After a brief discussion of the origins HS2330.K63 K8 2005 of stone lithography, artist Larry Lebby discusses the steps involved in making a Korean Americans. lithograph from the selection and Films for the Humanities (1994) preparation of a stone to making a proof Korean Americans have come into print. frequent and violent conflict with inner-city 1 videocassette (14 min.) African Americans, and have sought to NE2425 .L37 1983 overcome the rejection of the community around them. Examines their attempts to The Last Refuge: The Aetas of the retain their cultural values through their own Philippines. ethnic civic organizations. Filmakers Library (1994) Video Cassette ( 50 min.) Traces the history of the tribe of E 184 K6 K57 Aetas, the original inhabitants of the Philippines who have battled lowland The Ladies' = Zananeh expansion, commercial logging, and Women Make Movies (2003) encroachment on their ancestral land to Filmed in a women's survive. restroom in a park in Tehran, this film offers Video Cassette ( 51 min.) insights into the lives of women in Iran. The DS 666 A3 L27 ladies' room enables the women to unveil themselves, both physically and psychologically. 1 videocassette (55 min.) HQ1735.2 .L33 2003

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Latin America Modern Problems from Latinos: The Life of the Spirit. Ancient Roots. Films for the Humanities (1993) Guidance Asso. Explores the recent trend among 4 Filmstrips Latinos to leave the Catholic Church for 4 Cassettes evangelical or protestant religions; the F 1408.3 L38 rediscovery by Chicanos in California of native spiritual and religious rituals that Latino Employment and Unemployment. predate the arrival of Columbus; and the Films for the Humanities (1993) traditional Good Friday pilgrimage to the Looks at where Latinos work, the sanctuary at Chimayo, New Mexico, which income differential between Latinos and shows that traditional spirituality is alive and others, Latinos in unions, and obstacles that well in modern times. prevent entry into the workforce. Video Cassette ( 28 min.) Video Cassette ( 28 min.) E 184 S75 L38 E 184 S75 L36 Laughter: The Navajo Way. The Latino Family. Audio Forum Cassettes (1970) Films for the Humanities (1993) Humorous stories of the people. In Shows the changes in and the Navajo & English. endurance of traditional Latino families. Cassette Follows the paths of three generations of Book (130 p.) one Mexican-American family and traces the PM 2007 W543 patterns of migration and cultural change. Video Cassette ( 28 min.) Legacy: A Film. E 184 M5 L38 California Newsreel (2000) Chronicles the struggle of three Latino Hollywood. generations of African American women in Cinema Guild (1994) Chicago to free themselves from welfare History of Latino contributions to the and poverty. Also discusses the death of a early Hollywood film industry. fourteen-year-old boy who was a member of Video Cassette ( 31 min.) the family and was shot by a classmate. PN 1995.9 L37 L37 1 Video Cassette (90 min.) F548.9.N4 L43 2000 Latinos: The Life of the Spirit. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Legacy of Shame. c1992 Films for the Humanities (2002) Explores the recent trend among An investigation into the situation of Latinos to leave the Catholic Church for migrant farm laborers in the United States, evangelical or protestant religions; the covering topics such as pesticide risks, rediscovery by Chicanos in California of employment and immigration regulations, native spiritual and religious rituals that and documenting the efforts of advocates to predate the arrival of Columbus; and the provide equitable employment opportunities. traditional Good Friday pilgrimage to the 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.) sanctuary at Chimayo, New Mexico, which E184.S75 L38 shows that traditional spirituality is alive and well in modern times. 1 videodisc (49 min.) E445.N56 .S56 2004

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The Lemon Grove Incident. Life & Death on the River Ganges. The Cinema Guild (1985) Films for the Humanities and In July 1930, the school board in Sciences (2005) Lemon Grove, Ca., announced plans for "Traveling from Gaumukh, a separate school for Mexican-American the source of the holy Ganges, to students citing the Hispanics' lack of English Gangasagar, where the river enters the sea, skills and the need to improve "sanitation this program acquaints viewers with some of and morals." The Mexican-American India's venerable cultural traditions--and community protested the decision and reflects on environmental factors that are eventually won a lawsuit against the school steadily destroying this sacred Indian board. waterway"—Container. Video Cassette ( 58 min.) 1 videodisc (50 min.) LC 2688 L45 L45 GS1340.G25 L53 2005

Letters from America: The Life and A Life Apart: Hasidism in America. Times of O.E. Rolvaag. First Run Features, [2001?] New Day Films (1994) A life apart relates the story of the Captures the tragedy and the triumph creation of the Hasidic post-Holocaust of immigration. Explores Rolvaag's communities in the United States. Seven disillusionment with the materialism he years in the making, this documentary witnessed, and his advocacy for ethnic explores Hasidic homes, schools, and diversity. ceremonies. Video Cassette ( 29 min.) 1 videodisc (95 min.) PT 9150 R55 Z74 BM198.4.U6 L54 2001

Letters From the Other Side. Life and debt. New Day Films, [2006] New Yorker Video, [2003] "Interweaves video letters carried Jamaica became an independent across the U.S./Mexico border by [filmmaker country from Great Britain in 1962. It is the Heather Courtney] with the personal stories land of sea, sand and sun, but it is also a of women left behind in post-NAFTA Mexico, prime example of the complexities of giving voice to 4 amazing women who feel economic globalization on the world's the effects of failed immigration and trade developing countries. Effectively portrays policies on a daily basis. Focusing on a side the relationship between Jamaican poverty of the immigration story rarely told by the and the practices of international lending media or touched upon in our national agencies, such as the International debate, LETTERS offers a fresh Monetary Fund, while driving home the perspective, painting a complex portrait of devastating consequences of globalization. families torn apart by economics, 1 videodisc (86 min.) + 1 leaflet communities dying at the hands of HC154 .L54 2003+ 1 leaflet globalization, and governments incapable or unwilling to do anything about it"--Container Lighting the 7th Fire. 1 videodisc (73 min.) Upstream Prod. CT3295 .L48 2006 Examines how the Chippewa Indians of Northern Wisconsin have struggled to Liberty. restore the centuries old tradition of Films for the Humanities (1991) spearfishing – and the heated opposition To what extent should African they have encountered. Americans strive to maintain their cultural Video Cassette (48 min.) heritage and to what degree should they E 99 C6 L52 seek to become assimilated. Video Cassette ( 52 min.) E 185.61 L54

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Limpopo Line. The Long Walk: Tears of the Navajo. Films for the Humanities (1992) KUED 7, c2008 Discusses how the Limpopo Railway In 1864, thousands of Navajos were Line, which links Zimbabwe to Maputo in marched to a barren reservation in New Mozambique, is being rehabilitated. Mexico near the Texas border called Examines the lives of the people who Bosque Redondo. During this long walk, examine these regions. many died along the way. After their Video Cassette ( 40 min.) relocation, the boarding school aftermath HE 3427 Z8 L54 would shake the identity of the Navajo Indians. A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work 1 videodisc (57 min.) of Audre Lorde. E99.N3 L77 2008 Third World Newsreel, c1996 Audre Lorde, poet and lesbian- The Long way Home. feminist talks about being lesbian and black Moriah Films (1997) in New York in the 1950s. Includes Documentary on the Jewish survivors conversations and readings by Lorde and of World War II who were kept in displaced comments by other writers. persons camps and who eventually made 1 videodisc (60 min.) their way to Palestine to found the state of PS3562.O75 L58 1996 Israel. Video Cassette (2 hrs.) Little Injustices: Laura Nader Looks DS126.4 .L65 1997 at the Law. Odyssey (1980) The Long Way Home. Compares and contrasts the way in Koch Lorber Films (2003) which legal systems in the small Mexican This documentary traces the stories town of Talea and legal systems in the U.S. of courage in the years between the end of work to settle disputes and consumer World War II and the formation of the state complaints. of Israel. Includes archival footage, original Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) broadcasts and personal testimonies from KF 1609 L58 survivors of the Holocaust. 1 videodisc (120 min.) Little Italy. DS126.4 .L65 2003 University of California (1996) Documents how Italian immigrants Longines-Wittnauer Interviews. settled in America around the turn of the National Archives and Records Service century, and their struggle with (1984) discrimination. Focuses on Italian culture, Presents a panel interview with customs and traditions. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Video Cassette ( 57 min.) who focuses chiefly on the integration of E 184 I8 L58 American public schools. 1 videocassette (11 min.) The Long Road Home. LC214.2 .L65 1984 New Day Films (1994) Follows a 19 year old Mayan refugee from his home in Chicago to a Guatemalan refugee camp in Mexico. Shows what life is like in exile and the cooperative efforts being taken by the refugees to return home. Video Cassette ( 30 min.) Guide (32 p.) F 1466.7 L65

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Lost City. Lou Stovall. Nev. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, [2004] The Museum: Distributed by National "In this episode of Exploring Nevada, Audiovisual Center (1983) you'll head east from Las Vegas, through Artist Lou Stovall of the stunning Valley of Fire, to a fertile river Washington, D.C., discusses color selection, valley that lies against the Utah and Arizona technique, and his commitment to silk- borders, just north of what is now Lake screening as he takes the viewer through Mead. It's a land rich in history and the different steps that result in a finished prehistory, a land where a thousand years silk screen. ago an ancient people farmed, prospered, 1 videocassette (14 min.) and then suddenly disappeared, leaving NE2236 .L68 1983 behind a wealth of archaeological remains and unanswered questions. Much of their Love, Culture & the Kitchen Sink. material culture has been safeguarded in the Filmwest Associates (2001) Lost [City] Museum at the northern tip of Four couples, each at a different Lake Mead, in the town of Overton. Series stage of their lives, discuss their Host Gwen Clancy interviews Museum backgrounds, and how their cultural Curator Kathryne Olson, who has spent differences affect them and their children. years studying the Native American cultures Ben, an English Canadian, and Janet, a who have made this valley their home. We Chinese Canadian, are just married. Alex, then travel with museum archaeologist Eva an East Indian from South Africa, and Maria, Jensen to a dig site typical of the many sites a Portuguese, have been married many hurriedly excavated by the U.S. Park years, and their children are now married. Service before being submerged under the Mariko, the daughter of a Canadian mother waters of Lake Mead when Hoover Dam and Japanese father, has made two was constructed in the 1930s. You'll also get marriages, one to a Japanese, the second to an insider's tour of the Lost City Museum, a Canadian Indian. Shireen, the daughter of whose collections and exhibits feature the Alex and Maria, and her husband, Jason, cultures of the early Basketmakers, the the son of a Polish Canadian mother and an Anasazi or Ancestral Peublo [sic] and the African American father, discuss the Southern Paiute, whose descendants possibilities of heritage for their new son, continue to make their home in these lands"- Jamal. Online accompanying material. 1 Video Cassette (48 min.) 1 videodisc (28 minutes) HQ1031 .L68 2001 E78.N4 L67 2004 Luchando! Cuba's Struggle to Survive. Lost in Translation. Documentary Educational Resources Annenberg/CPB Collection (1994) This report discusses the future of Interviews with Cubans about their Latino youth in the United States, including opinions on living in Cuba, its revolutionary dropout rates and the impact of California's process, the blockade by the U.S. against Proposition 227, which would discontinue Cuba, and famous Cubans of the past. bilingual education. Video Cassette ( 55 min.) Video Cassette ( 57 min.) F 1788 L82 LC2669 .L67 1998 Mah Jong Orphan. Lost Tribes of Israel. Filmakers Library (1994) WGBH Boston Video, c2000 A real life film which focuses on the South Africa's Lemba people claim to chasm between a Chinese mother who is a be descendants of Jews and one of the lost first generation immigrant, and her daughter, tribes of Israel. In this program, who is eager to fit in with her Caucasian anthropologist Tudor Parfitt investigates the friends and rejects her mother's values. Lemba's claim through genetic testing and Video Cassette ( 45 min.) attempts to retrace their migration. F 1035 C5 M33 Video Cassette ( 1 hr) DT1768.L45 L67 2000

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Maids and Madams. Malcolm X Speaks Out. Filmakers Library (1986) Andrews and McMeel (1992) Examines the tragedy of Apartheid Speeches recorded from 1961 through the complex relationship between through 1964 on compact disk. black household worker and white employer. Book (92 p.) Over a million black women live in a state of Compact Disc domestic bondage, underpaid, and BP 223 Z8 L5795 1992 overworked. Video Cassette ( 52 min.) Marcus Garvey : Look for Me in the DT 1168 M33 Whirlwind. PBS Home Video (2001) Maid in America. Uses archival film, photographs and Impacto Film (2004) documents to uncover the story of this This documentary explores the lives Jamaican immigrant, who between 1916 of three Latina immigrant women who work and 1921 built the largest black mass as nannies and housekeepers in Los movement in world history. Angeles, California. Through these women's Video Cassette ( 1 hr 30 min) lives, this documentary explores the E185.97.G3 M3613 2001 globalization of motherhood, the challenges these women face while pursuing the Marcus Garvey: Toward Black American dream and the significant role they Nationhood. play in American households today. Films for the Humanities (1989) 1 videodisc (58 min.) Examines the career of the pioneer HD6072.2.U52 L676 2004 Black nationalist. Ranges from his birthplace in Jamaica to the U.S., Europe Malajunta: Bad Company. and Africa. Shows how his legacy inspired Cinema Guild (1996) the civil rights movement in the U.S. and Examines the 1976-1983 period in liberation movements in the Third World. Argentina when the nation was terrorized by Video Cassette ( 42 min.) a cruel military dictatorship. Documents the E 185.97 G3 M362 return to democracy in 1983, and the subsequent trials of the military leaders. Marketing Booze to Blacks. Video Cassette ( 58 min.) CSPIIBCA (1990) JC 599 A7 M34 Examines the impact of alcoholism and other alcohol-related problems in the Malcolm X: Militant Black Leader. Black community. Exposes the messages in Schlessinger Video Prod. (1992) alcohol ads. The story of Malcolm X, militant black Video Cassette ( 17 min.) leader; adapted from the book of the same Guide (7 p.) title by Jack Rummel. HF 6161 L46 M37 Video Cassette ( 30 min.) E 185.97 L5 M34 Martin Luther King: "I Have A Dream." MPI Home Video (1988) Malcolm X: The Real Story. Recording of Martin Luther King's Columbia House (1992) televised speech given on August 28, 1963, CBS News examines the life of to the civil rights marchers at the Lincoln Malcolm X. Memorial, with additional footage from other Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) demonstrations and King's funeral. E 185.97 L5 M37 Video Cassette ( 25 min.) E 185.61 M37

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The Massachusetts 54th Colored The Media and the American Indian. Infantry. University of Tulsa PBS (1991) Keynote speakers respond to five Tells the complete story of the 54th questions about how the media does and regiment --- who they were and why they does not cover Native Americans. fought. Video Cassette ( 26 min.) Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) E 77 M48 E 513.5 54th M38 A Meditation on Langston Hughes (1902- Material Witness: Race, Identity and the 1967) and the Harlem Renaissance: With Politics of Gangsta Rap. the Poetry of Essex Hemphill and Bruce Media Education Foundation (1995) Nugent (1906-1987) Talks about the important issues of Waterbearer Films (1992) essentialism and notions of identity within A dramatization, including the context of race. Discusses hip-hop documentary film clips, of Langston Hughes' culture and the conflicts around gangsta rap. milieu in the Harlem of the 1930's. Explores Video Cassette ( 42 min.) black and white gay identities and examines E 185.625 M37 attitudes toward homosexuality then and now. The voice-over narration is from the A Matter of Promises. poetry and prose of James Baldwin, Essex PBS (1991) Hamphill, Bruce Nugent, and Hilton Als. Viewers meet members of the 1 videocassette (45 min.) Onondaga, Navajo and Lummi leadership. PS3515.U274 Z682 1992 Interviews provide an overview of the growing concerns of the tribes, revealing Memories of the Oraibi Split. that they maintain a wary co-existence Carnegie Museum of Natural History within the larger American culture. (2001) Documents forces that threaten their Helen Sekaquaptewa, interviewed in national sovereignty. 1982, talks about her life and describes her Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) memories of her family and others being E 99 O58 W55 forced to leave their homes when she was a child because many of the people of Oraibi Matters of Race. left to form the pueblos of Hotevilla and PBS DVD Video (2003) Bacavi due to economic disturbances and "Explores the complex demands of internal dissension. Her son Emory the country's rapidly changing multiracial Sekaquaptewa adds his comments in a and multicultural society and shows how 1999 interview. American citizens imagine the new America 1 Video Cassette (14 min.) of the 21st century"—Container E99.H7 M44 2001 disc 1. part 1. The divide. part 2. Race is/race ain't The Mexicans: Through Their Eyes. disc 2. part 3. We're still here. National Geographic Society (1992) part 4. Tomorrow's America Focuses on the vitality and spirit of 2 videodiscs (240 min.) Mexico through the eyes and voices of its E184.A1 M356 2003 people. Video Cassette ( 59 min.) The Maya: Temples, Tombs & Time. F 1208 M48 Questar Video (1994) Describes the history of the Mayan civilization which flourished in southern Mexico and Central America. 1 Video Cassette (54 min.) F1435 .M38 1994

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Mexico: The Days of the Dead. Migrant Workers. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Paul S. Goodman (2002) [2007] Video profiles four migrant workers Examines a collection of sacred, who work in the blueberry fields of Union, social, and artistic traditions that survived Maine. The workers talk about their work, European assimilation and now compose families, and their future. The migrant one of Mexico's most important annual workers profiled are from various countries. festivals. 1 Video Cassette (10 min.) 1 videodisc (54 min.) HD1527.M2 M53 2002 GT4995.A4 M495 2007 Miles From the Border. Mexico: The Frozen Revolution. New Day Films Facets Video, 2007 The Aparicio family shares its In "Mexico, the frozen revolution", the experiences of dislocation and the difficulties director uses newsreel footage of Pancho of crossing cultures. Portrays their struggles Villa and Emiliano Zapata to connect the to learn English, resist vocational tracking, betrayal of the 1910 Mexican Revolution attend universities, and help others achieve with the failure of revolution in his own time. a balance in a multicultural society. He exposes the PRI, the party that governed Video Cassette ( 15 min.) Mexico for almost seventy years, as corrupt. F 869 L89 M45 In "The land burns", Raymundo Gleyzer exposes the inequities of land ownership in Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggles. Brazil. "It happened in Hualfin" is a trilogy of California Newsreel (1983) shorts that examine the generational cycle Chronicles the 12 year struggle to of poverty in Catamarca, Argentina. organize the first black trade union, the Mexico, the frozen revolution = Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Six Mexico, la revolucion congelada (65 min.) retired Pullman porters reenact how they The land burns = La tierra quema (12 gave smiling service in accordance with a min.) list of 217 rules. Provides an in-depth It happened in Hualfin = Ocurrido en account of African-American work life Hualfin (50 min.) between the Civil War and WW II. 1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) Video Cassette ( 58 min.) HC135 .M5483 2007 HD 6515 R362 B765

The Middle Passage. HBO Video (2003) The story of an African slave who was sold into slavery by the King of Dahomey, shackled and transported on a journey shared with some six hundred others. A journey barely half would survive. Video Cassette (76 min) PN1995.9.S557 M53 2003

Midnight Ramble. PBS Video (1994) Explores the rise and decline of an independent film industry that produced almost 500 movies for African-American audiences from 1910-1940. Focuses on filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, who wrote and directed more than 40 features. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) PN 1995.9 N4 M53

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Millennium. Mississippi, America: Legal Battles of the PBS Video (1992) Freedom Summer Through personal documentaries Films for the Humanities & Sciences, presents tribal people, their customs and [2008] ceremonies. This documentary presents a look at The Shock of the Other GN 380 S56 the work of local and out-of-state lawyers Strange Relations GN 480 S87 who answered the call for assistance to Mistaken Identity BC 199 I4 M57 defend imprisoned civil rights activists. An Ecology of Mind GF 21 E26 Features archival footage and eyewitness The Art of Living N 5310.5 N55 A77 accounts of the struggle to win African Touching the Timeless BL 51 T66 Americans' right to vote. A Poor Man Shames Us All 1 videodisc (57 min.) GN 635 I65 P66 E185.93.M6 M57 2008 Inventing Reality BD 331 I58 The Tightrope of Power JC 423 T53 Mixed Blood. At the Threshold GN 380 A72 Oxygen Prod. (1997) 10 Video Cassettes ( 1 hr.) Examines interracial relationships Booklet (16 p.) between Asian Americans and non-Asian Student Activity Sheets Americans. Resource Guide (48 p.) Video Cassette ( 20 min.) Viewers Guide HQ 801.8 M58

Mined to Death. Mobutu, King of Zaire : An African Berkeley Media (2006) Tragedy. Depicts the lives and work of miners First Run/Icarus Films in Potosí, Bolivia, who extract silver, zinc, Discusses the rise and fall of Joseph and lead from the same mountain their Désiré Mobutu, ruler of Zaire (the Congo) for ancestors mined five centuries ago. over 30 years Documents how the mine is central to life in pt. 1. The quest for power Potosí and how tourism in the region pt. 2. The upper hand promises to bring in additional revenue to pt. 3. The end of a reign compensate for the 'dying' mountain. 3 Video Cassettes ( 52 min ea) 1 videodisc (41 min.) DT658.25 .M63 1999 HD9506.B52 M55 2006 El Mojado. Los Mineros. Bleak Beauty Video (1974) PBS (1990) Portrait of an undocumented laborer The story of Mexican-American from Mexico. An introduction to the world of miners and their struggles. Recounts the illegal aliens. English and Spanish with rise and fall of sister cities Clifton-Morenci, subtitles. where they mined copper ore. Life within Video Cassette ( 14 min.) the community is seen through the eyes of HD 8081 M6 M65 the miners and their families. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Monkey Dance. HD 6515 C72 C56 Berkeley Media, [2004] Explores the lives of three Cambodian American teenagers as they come of age in the United States while holding on to some aspects of their Cambodian culture such as Cambodian dance. 1 videodisc (56 min.) E184.K45 M66 2004

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Monument of Chief Rolling Mountain Mountain Music of Peru. Thunder. Berkeley Media, (2005) University of California (1983) A portrait of the folk music, culture Describes the life of Chief Rolling and lifestyle of the people of Qeros, high in Mountain Thunder, who has built a the Peruvian mountains. combination house and sculpture with a 1 videodisc (59 min.) Native American theme out of rocks, bottles, M1693 .M68 2005 etc. in Imlay, Nevada. Video Cassette ( 28 min.) Moving Mountains. NB 237 C45 A35 Filmakers Library (1990) A look at the Yiu Mien, a group of More Than Bows and Arrows. Southeast Asian refugees who settled in the Camera One (1992) Pacific Northwest. Portrays a people caught Documents the contributions of the between two worlds and the realities of their American Indians to the development of the struggle to adapt to American culture. U.S. and Canada. Includes prehistoric Video Cassette ( 58 min.) mounds, early mines, irrigation canal HV 640.5 Y58 M68 systems and fishing. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) The Murder of Emmett Till. E 77 M67 PBS Home Video (2003) The shameful, sadistic murder of 14- Morristown: In the Air and Sun = En el year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who Aire y el Sol. whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi Appalshop, c2007 grocery store in 1955, was a powerful Chronicles nearly a decade of change catalyst for the civil rights movement. in Morristown, Tennessee, through Although Till's killers were apprehended, interviews with displaced or low-wage they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, Southern workers, Mexican immigrants, and all-male jury and proceeded to sell their workers and families impacted by story to a journalist, providing grisly details globalization. of the murder. Three months after Till's body 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) was recovered, the Montgomery Bus HD8083.T2 M67 2007 Boycott began. 1 Video Cassette (ca. 60 min.) Most Honorable Son. F350.N4 M87 2003 PBS Home Video, c2007 After the Pearl Harbor attack, Ben The Music of Latin America. Kuroki would be the first Japanese- Educational Video Network American war hero, surviving 58 missions as The distinctive music of Latin America an aerial gunner. But he found himself at the is a blending of the wind and percussion center of controversy, as the lone instruments of native Indians with European spokesman against the racism faced by the influences. thousands of Japanese-Americans. Video Cassette ( 20 min.) 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) ML 199 D57 D769.8.A6 M675 2007 Muslims. El Moulid. Mystic Fire Video (2002) Arab Film Dist. (1990) Looks at what it means to be a Shows some of the events of the Muslim in the 21st century. Explores the Islamic religious festival of El Moulid. influence of culture and politics on religion. Video Cassette ( 40 min.) Emphasizes Islam's kinship with Christianity BP 186.34 E42 and Judaism and looks at diverse interpretations of Islam among the Muslim people. 1 Video Cassette (118 min.) DS35.62 .M87 2002

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The Mystery of Chaco Canyon. Nanjing = Nanking. Bullfrog Films (2003) Thinkfilm, LLC 2007 Examines the enigmas presented by Tells the story of the Japanese the prehistoric remains found in Chaco invasion of Nanking, China in the early days Canyon in New Mexico. Tells that between of World War II and focuses on the efforts of 850 and 1150 AD, the Chacoan people a small group of unarmed Westerners who constructed massive ceremonial buildings in established a Safety Zone where over a complex celestial pattern throughout a 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through vast desert region, and uses aerial and time deeply moving interviews with Chinese lapse footage and computer modeling to survivors, archival footage, and chilling show how the Chacoan culture designed, testimonies of Japanese soldiers, oriented and located these buildings in interwoven with staged readings of the relation to the sun and moon. Pueblo Westerners' letters and diaries. Indians, descendants of the Chacoan 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) people, also speak of the significance of DS777.5314 .N36 2007 Chaco to the Pueblo world today. 1 videodisc (56 min.) Nanook Revisited. E99.P9 M97 2003 Films for the Humanities (1990) Revisits the site of Flaherty's filming, Mystery of the First Americans. and shows that he staged much of what he WGBH Boston Video (2000) filmed, sired children to whose future he In 1996, near Kennewick, paid no heed, and is himself now part of the Washington, a suspected murder victim is Inuit myth. identified by forensic anthropologists as Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Caucasian – but turns out to be almost E 99 E7 N35 10,000 years old. The discovery of the Kennewick Man, along with several other Nashville : We Were Warriors. startling finds in recent years, has embroiled Films for the Humanities scientists in a bitter conflict with Native Fall 1959, James Lawson offered free American groups who want the scientific evening classes on nonviolent action to study of early Americans halted. university students in Nashville with the goal Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) of training and preparing them to E77.9 .M87 2000 desegregate the city's business district. Lawson had spent three years in India N. Scott Momaday. learning about Mohandas Gandhi. Now he Films for the Humanities (2004) guided his students in a study of both the The Native American experience is history and practice of nonviolent methods-- portrayed in conversations with Native to prepare them for their "sit-ins" at American author N. Scott Momaday, who downtown stores. has combined his study of Western literature Video Cassette ( 33 min.) with the themes as well as the structures of F444.N257 N37 2000 his Kiowa Indian heritage. 1 videodisc (45 min.) PS3563.O47 Z46 2004

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Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property. The Native Americans. California Newsreel, 2002 Ambrose Video (1994) "Evaluates the authenticity of the Pt. 1: The Northeast. Looks at the earliest source, "The Confessions of Nat first contact between European settlers and Turner", assembled by a white Virginia the Native Americans. Since early tribes lawyer from jailhouse interviews. It then had no written language, laws and treaties follows the controversy over the Nat Turner were recorded with symbols on the wampum story played out through history. Alvin belt. Mohawk council members discuss Poussaint and Ossie Davis recall how Nat ways of returning to their culture. Turner became a hero in the Black Pt. 2: The Southeast. Remembers community. Religious scholar Vincent the poor treatment of Native Americans. Harding and legal scholar Martha Minow Account of the horrific Trail of Tears. The reflect on America's attitudes toward state of Georgia extended its laws over the terrorism. One of the most bitter race battles Cherokee nation in 1829; all Cherokee tribal of the 1960s is reexamined, when William office holders became criminals. Styron published his novel, The Confessions Pt. 3: The Far West. Demonstrates of Nat Turner"—Container. that without the connection between 1 videodisc (60 min.) economics and religion, many Native F232.S7 N465 2002 cultures would have become extinct during the 1800s when such spiritual practices Native American Traditions. were often outlawed. The discovery of gold Insight Media (1994) was the final chapter in the taking of land John Simmons and Diane Sandage from Native Americans. discuss Native American religions and Pt. 4: The Southwest. The Southwest is culture and the connection between Native most closely connected to myths American culture and New Age spirituality. perpetuated about Native Americans. Tells They also examine the differences between the tragic story of their spiritual foundations, Euro-American and Native American forced underground by Spanish and U.S. religions and cultural expression, and invaders. ecological and feminist issues. Pt. 5: The Plains I. A culture Video Cassette (1 hr.) dedicated to maintaining a delicate harmony E 98 R3 N38 with animals, plants and natural forces through spirituality. Featured are Lakota, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Arapaho, Kiowa, Omaha, Black Feet, Gros Ventre and others. Pt. 6: The Plains II. The introduction of the horse into Plains lifestyle gave the tribes greater mobility and hunting capabilities, but also increased warfare, population and pressure on the environment. Guns and alcohol contributed to their plight. Smallpox and cholera devastated their population. To escape annihilation they had to become Christian. 6 Video Cassettes (49 min. ea) E 77 N35

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Native Americans of the Civil War. The Negro Soldier. Desert Rose Productions (2006) Distributed by National "The third installment of Stan Audiovisual Center, 1985? Armstrong's Civil War trilogy, focuses on the Shows the contributions and five civilized tribes and their contributions to sacrifices by Black Americans in virtually all both sides as well as the northern our nation's armed conflicts. Chippewas and Iroquois who were led and 1 videocassette (42 min.) tutored by the northern abolitionist during E185.63 .N45 1985 the war. This documentary also focuses on Brigadier General Stand Watie most noted Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and for being the last general to surrender during Black Power. the Civil War"—Container. California Newsreel (2005) 1 videodisc (45 min.) Documents the life and times of E540.I3 N37 2006 political activist, Robert F. Williams. From his childhood in Monroe, North Carolina, to Natives: Immigrant Bashing on the his self-exile and eventual return to the U.S., Border. the film uses interviews and stock footage to Filmakers Library (1991) tell the story of the forefather of the Black Documentary on the xenophobia of power movement in the United States. some Americans living in California along 1 videodisc (53 min.) the U.S.-Mexican border. The are forming E185.97.W615 N43 2005 nativist organizations in an attempt to keep potential immigrants out. The New Americans. Video Cassette (28 min.) Home Vision Entertainment (2004) F 870 M5 N37 Depicts the journeys of five families from their homes in the Dominican Republic, Navajo Canyon Country Nigeria, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Quality Information Publishers, c2006 Mexico and India to new lives in the United Navajo canyon country shows States. glorious footage of Navajo Nation country in 3 videocassettes (ca. 400 min.) New Mexico and Arizona, including great JK6456 .N46 2004 tape 1 – 3 shots of the daily life of the Native Americans inhabiting the area. New Faces on Main Street. 1 videodisc (12 min.) NEWIST/CESA 7 E99.N3 N315 2006 A contemporary perspective of the situation of Latino and Hmong immigrants, Navajo Medicine. why they originally came to the U.S., and We Do the Work (1993) how they are surviving in communities in the Examines the lack of health care on Midwest. the Navajo reservation and the struggles of Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Navajo health care workers. Booklet (49 p.) Video Cassette ( 29 min.) F 590 A1 N48 RA448.5.I5 N38 1993 New Harvest, Old Shame. Navajos Film Themselves. PBS (1990) Museum of Modern Art Film Library Follows the migrant workers' stream (198?) to Florida and investigates why their living Made by Navajo Indians living near conditions are so deplorable. Pine Springs, AZ. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Video Cassette ( 47 min.) HD 1525 N48 E 99 N3599

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New Orleans' Black Indians: A Case Nisei Soldier. Study in the Arts. Vox Productions (1984) RMI Media Prod. (19??) Examines the moral and political Shows how art mirrors culture. contradictions experienced by a group of Profiles the impact of the American Indian, Americans of Japanese ancestry who, African, and Creole cultures on the Mardi during World War II, proved their loyalty by Gras. heroic military service while their families Video Cassette ( 30 min.) were imprisoned by their own government. F 380 N59 N45 Includes archival material from World War II interwoven with present day interviews with The New Tijuana. survivors of the 442nd Japanese-American University of California Extension Media Regimental Combat Team. (1991) 1 videocassette (29 min.) Profile of booming Tijuana, Mexico, D753.8 .N57 1984 as a Third World border town with a sordid past and its promise as an international No Colors: Racism and Prejudice in center of finance and high technology. Modern Europe. Video Cassette ( 58 min.) Films for the Humanities & Sciences, F 1391 T36 N48 c2007 Program looks at racism and Newe Segobia is Not For Sale. xenophobia brought to the surface by the Mission Creek Video (1993) massive influx of foreign workers and job- Depicts the battle between Western seekers into Western Europe. Describes the Shoshone land activists Mary and Carrie search for equitable solutions by moderate Dann and the U.S. Government's Bureau of European Union leaders and citizens. Land Management. This conflict is over who Examines Islamophobia, religious will control the Western Shoshones fundamentalism, the radicalization of young ancestral lands in Northeastern Nevada. Muslim men, and racism in football or The Shoshones speak for themselves about soccer. their ties to the land and their determination 1 videodisc (26 min.) to keep it. D1056.2.M87 N6 2007 Video Cassette ( 27 min.) E 99 S4 N493 No Easy Walk. The Cinema Guild (1990) Nez Perce: Portrait of a People. Chronicles the history of colonialism Zenger Video and the struggle for independence in Illustrates the efforts of the Nez Perce Ethiopia, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. Each to live in harmony. Told from the program contrasts European newsreels and perspective of the Nez Perce. press reports with interviews with Video Cassette ( 23 min.) eyewitness survivors. E 99 N5 N47 1. Ethiopia - DT 386 N62 2. Kenya - DT 433.575 N62 Nine Nations of North America: 3. Zimbabwe - DT 2959 N62 Mexamerica. 3 Video Cassettes ( 1 hr. ea.) PBS (1988) Explores a world that extends beyond No Loans Today. state and provincial boundaries. Focuses First Run/Icarus Films (1994) on the people of the fastest growing "nation" Documents daily life in the African- in America, "Mexamerica". This region American community of South Central Los extends from Los Angeles to Houston and Angeles. Centers on the ABC Loan Co. and from Pueblo, Colorado, to San Luis Potosis, explores the lives of several people who’ve Mexico . either chosen or been forced to remain in Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) this community. E 787 N55 Video Cassette ( 56 min.) HG 2103 L6 N62

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Nokomis: Voices of Anishinabe Not a Simple Story; Out in Silence. Grandmothers. Filmakers Library, c1994 Cinnamon Productions (1994) Two documentaries on AIDS among Documents Ojibwe women's attempts Asian Americans. In the first (9 min.) a to restore and preserve their Native widow, whose husband died of AIDS, copes American culture and heritage. They recall with her HIV. In the second (28 min.) a painful memories of growing up trying to young gay male talks about being an Asian conform to a white man's view of the world, American gay with HIV. a view that saw Indian ways as bad. They 1 videodisc (37 min.) discuss the negative influence of the mission RA643.83 .N67 1994 schools, the desecration of Indian sacred and ceremonial artifacts and grounds, and Not Black or White. the movement by Indians to reassert their NAATA treaty rights. Examines the stereotypical ways in 1 videocassette (55 min.) which Asian women have been depicted in E99.C6 N65 1994 the media and how three nationally acclaimed Asian American actresses El Norte (The North). challenge and defy those concepts in their CBS/Fox Video (1984) creative work and careers. Beginning in the remote mountain Video Cassette ( 20 min.) jungles of Guatemala, awash with the PN1995.9.A77 N67 1999 lushness of nature and the rainbow colors of the Mayans, this highly- acclaimed drama Not Without My Veil: Amongst the about a brother and sister seeking a better Women of Oman. life centers on two young Indians. When Filmakers Library their father is killed by government soldiers A look at educated, independent and their mother taken away, they set out for Islamic women who wear traditional dress, the "promised land" to the north--El Norte. but are moving into new career areas. Video Cassette ( 2 hrs 21 min.) Video Cassette ( 29 min.) PQ7082.D7 N67x HQ 1731 N67

El Norte = The North. Oaxacalifornia. Frontera Films (1984) University of California (1994) Beginning in the mountains of Profiles members of a middle class Guatemama, El norte is the story of a Mexican American family in Fresno, Ca. brother and sister who leave their homeland Examines their lifestyle, attitudes, cultural in search of the "promised land" after their traditions, and employment. Follows them father is assassinated by the government. as they return to their ancestral home in 1 videodisc (141 min.) Oaxaca, Mexico to renew their cultural roots. PN1995.9.E44 N67 1984 Video Cassette (58 min.) F 870 M5 O28 North From Mexico. U.S.A. (1989) Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Starting with the days of the roaming Korematsu Story Spanish explorers, the story of the Mexican- National Asian American American unfolds. Reveals the racism, Telecommunications Assoc. : distributed misunderstandings and distortions of reality by NAATA distribution (2000) that have long victimized America's second Fred Korematsu lost his landmark largest minority. Supreme Court case in 1944 about the Video Cassette ( 21 min.) forced internment of Japanese Americans E 184 M5 N67 during World War II. This is the history of the 40-year legal fight to vindicate Korematsu 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) KF7224.5 .O42 2000

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Older, Stronger, Wiser. On Our Watch. Indiana University Center for Media & PBS Home Video, c2007 Teaching Resources (1989) "The world invoked its vow 'Never The importance of black women as Again!' after the genocide in Rwanda and the foundation of the community is told atrocities in Srebrenica. Then came Darfur. through the profiles of five Canadian Over the past four years at least 200,000 women. people have been killed, 2.5 million driven Video Cassette ( 28 min.) from their homes, and mass rapes have F 1035 N3 O43 once more been used as a weapon of war in a brutal campaign by Janjaweed militias and On My Own: The Traditions of Daisy the Sudanese government against civilians Turner. in Darfur. FRONTLINE asks why the Folklife Center (1986) international community and the United Presents the life of a daughter of a Nations have once again failed to stop the former slave, 102-year-old Daisy Turner. slaughter"—Container. She recalls childhood incidents and her 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) father's Civil War experiences and talks DT159.6.D27 O5 2007 about life in her homestead in Vermont. Folklorist Jane Beck fills in details about Only the Ball Was White. traditions preserved in the Turner family. MPI Home Video (1992) 1 Video Cassette (28 min.) The history of black baseball leagues. 1 Teacher's Guide (32 p) Video Cassette ( 30 min.) E185.97.T93 A3 1996 GV 875 A1 O55 E185.97.T93 A3 1996 guide Operation Babylift. On My Own: The Traditions of Daisy Against The Grain Productions, c2010 Turner. "'Operation Babylift' was a $2 million Folklife Center (1986) U.S. initiative that airlifted over 2,500 Presents the life of a daughter of a Vietnamese orphans out of a war-torn former slave, 102-year-old Daisy Turner. country in 1975 to protect them from the She recalls childhood incidents and her impending threat of the Communist Regime. father's Civil War experiences and talks Coined by some as "one of the most about life in her homestead in Vermont. humanitarian efforts in history," it was also Folklorist Jane Beck fills in details about plagued by lawsuits and political turmoil. traditions preserved in the Turner family. Facing enormous prejudice and stigmatized 1 Video Cassette (28 min.) by an unpopular war, the Vietnamese 1 Teacher's Guide (32 p) Babylift Adoptees had a cultural identity E185.97.T93 A3 1996 crisis unlike any other immigrant or adoptee E185.97.T93 A3 1996 guide community"—Container. 1 videodisc (72 min.) DS559.8.C53 O64 2010

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The Order of Myths Origins. Cinema Guild 2008 Films for the Humanities (1991) "The first Mardi Gras in America was Begins with the arrival of 20 enslaved celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In Africans at Jamestown in 1619 and 2008, the celebration is still racially examines the impact of slavery on African segregated. Go into the parallel hearts of the Americans. Explains the importance of their city's two carnivals. With unprecedented African roots for African Americans and access, the director traces the exotic world shows how African cultural heritage of secret mystic societies and centuries-old manifests itself in American life. traditions and pageantry. From the crowns, Video Cassette ( 46 min.) the gowns, the surreal masks, to the E 185 O75 enormous paper mache floats. Uncover a tangled web of historical violence and power Origins of India's Hindu Civilization. dynamics, both of which are elusive forces EVN (1991) that keep this hallowed tradition organized Provides a basic understanding of along color lines"—Container. Hindu beliefs and explains how Hinduism 1 videodisc (80 min.) has developed through the centuries. Gives GT4210.A2 O73 2008 an overview of the history of the Indian subcontinent and the people involved in its Ordinary Lives development. Documentary Educational Resources Video Cassette ( 22 min.) (2006) BL 1212.72 O75 Uncovers the living conditions of residents in a slum in Mumbai, focusing Os carvoeiros = the Charcoal People of closely on the daily struggles of one joint Brazil. family with ten members of three Vanguard Cinema, c2002 generations crammed in a 180-square-foot Shows the life and work of migrants in shack. Through a juxtaposition of voices Brazil who produce charcoal for use in the from both inside and outside the slums, the production of pig iron. film re-examines issues such as poverty, 1 videodisc (70 min.) human rights, and gender equality that have HD8039.C43 C37 2002 been troubling India and other developing countries. Osaka Story: A Documentary. 1 videodisc (38 min.) Icarus Films (2004) HN690.B6 O74 2006 An autobiographical look at the cultural and generational clashes within The Origin of the Crown Dance. Nakata's Korean-Japanese family. Also Norman Ross Pub., [distributor, 198-?] discuses the filmmaker and his conflicts (1978) about whether he should return to Japan Rudolph Kane, an Apache elder, and fill the role of eldest son or if he should holds a story telling session for his family in tell his family about his homosexuality and which he relates two kinds of Apache go his own way. narratives, a myth about the 'gaan', or 1 videodisc (74 min.) supernaturals, and a series of folktales HQ682 .O73 2004 about Ba'ts'oosee (sly fox). Includes sequence of performance of Crown Dance. Osama Bin Laden: In the Name of Allah. 1 videocassette (40 min.) A&E Home Video 2001 E99.A6 O74 1981 The personal journey of the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. 1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) HV6430.B55 O83 2001

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El Otro Lado. (The Other Side) Out of Obscurity. Bleak Beauty Video (1978) California Newsreel (1999) Made with the rare cooperation of Details a little-known chapter in civil large groups of Mexican campesinos as they rights history. In 1939 five young men walk into this country and live as staged what is believed to be the nation's undocumented workers in citrus groves near first sit-in at a public library just outside Phoenix. Filmed in Queretero and Maripoca Washington, DC, to protest the "separate, County the campesinos work, sing corredos, but equal" treatment of African-Americans. and laugh at adversity. Spanish with Includes a dramatization of the 1939 sit-in English subtitles. and a look at the role of local civil rights Video Cassette ( 1 hr. ) activist Samuel Wilbert Taylor. JV 6913 M5 O87 1 Video Cassette (approx. 40 min.) E185.93.V8 O87 1999 Our Land, Our Life: The Struggle for Western Shoshone Land Rights. Paha Sapa: The Struggle for the Black Gage & Gage Productions (2007) Hills. "CERD recommended that the U.S. Mystic Fire Video (1993) initiate dialogue with the Western Shoshone Told entirely by members of the to resolve the land and rights issues. The Lakota and Cheyenne tribes. Tells the story Western Shoshone are still waiting. Oxfam of their struggle to get their sacred lands America supports the struggle of the back. Western Shoshone Defense Project and Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) indigenous peoples around the world to E 78 S63 P33 protect their human rights and livelihoods." 1 videodisc (118 min.) Palestine: 1890s-1990s. E98.L3 O87 2007 Films for the Humanities & Sciences (2003) Our Lives in Our Hands. Details a historical perspective of Documentary Educational Resources Palestine with interviews from various (1986) individuals, including political officials. A documentary film showing the 1 videocassette (35 min.) Micmac Indian way of life in northern Maine, DS125 .P28 2003 focusing on the traditional craft of wood splint basketry. Palestine is Still the Issue. 1 videodisc (49 min.) Bullfrog Films (2002) E99.M6 O871986 John Pilger travels to Israel and the West Bank of Jordan and Gaza to ask why Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish the Palestinians are still refugees in their Emigration to America. own land. In a series of interviews with both Shanachie (1995) Palestinians and Israelis, he explores the Traces the story of flight from the issue of Palestine and presents the famine-swept villages of 19th century Ireland Palestinians as a nation of people, to the industrialized cities of 20th century traumatized, humiliated and yet resilient. He America. Focuses on the lives of eight asks for a solution that. immigrants. 1 videodisc (53 min.) Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 51 min.) DS119.76 .P35 2002 E 184 I6 O87

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Patagonia. The Peyote Road. Documentary Educational Resources, Kifaru Prod. (19??) 2007 Addresses the US Supreme Court "Patagonia documents the daily lives "Smith" decision. Documents the old of the three native groups who inhabited sacramental use of Peyote, a cactus with Tierra del Fuego in southern Argentina: the psychedelic properties. A trip into Peyote Onas, the Alacalufes, and the Tehuelches. fields of Southern Texas is mixed with Featuring life amidst a rough terrain of rocky interviews of Native Americans who have ice-capped mountains, majestic glaciers, grown up within The Native American and thunderous rapids, the film presents an Church. early record of their hunting methods, Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) healing rituals, clothes and basket making E 98 R3 P38 and way of life"—Container. 1 videodisc (62 min.) The Peyote Road. F2936 .P315 2007 Kifaru Productions (1992) Describes the struggle of American People Like Us: Social Class in America. Indians, especially those who belong to the Center for New American Media Native American Church, to continue to use Distributed in the USA by CNAM Film the drug peyote as an integral part of their Library (2001) religious rites and ceremonies. Discusses how social class has as 1 videocassette (60 min.) much influence as race or ethnicity in E98.R3 P38x determining what kind of opportunities a person has in life. Phantom India 1 Video Cassette (124 min.) + 1 guide Criterion Collection (2007) (75 p.) "This extraordinary journey to India, HN57 .P37 2001 + guide originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his People of the Klamath: Of Land and Life. sense of discovery, as well as occasional New Day Films (1990) outrage, intrigue, and joy"—Container. Cultural and religious sovereignty 2 videodiscs (363 min.) issues are raised when a conflict between DS414.2 .P43 2007 the Karuk Indians of northern California and the U.S. Forest Service go to court over the Philippines: Angels of the Night. protection of ceremonial lands. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Video Cassette ( 29 min.) (2000) E 78 C15 P43 "Prostitution is the occupation of necessity for supporting impoverished Performing the Border. millions residing in the slums of Manila. This Women Make Movies (1999) program tracks the lives of three girl Examines socioeconomic problems of prostitutes, ages 11 to 13, over a five-year the Mexican-American border region, period, during which one becomes a pimp, focusing on hardships faced by women in another a drug addict, and the third newly urbanized areas. vanishes, presumed dead. Efforts by family Video Cassette ( 43 min.) planning organizations such as UNICEF F787 .P47 1999 sponsored Reach Out and the Apelo Women's Health clinic are described, as well as the Roman Catholic point of view."-- Container 1 Video Cassette (45 min.) HQ245.A5 P45 2000

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Pine Nuts. Postville: When Cultures Collide. University of California PBS Video (2001) Members of the Great Basin Paviotso This IPTV broadcast tells the story of and Paiute tribes demonstrate how pine nuts how a small Iowa town is dealing with were harvested and prepared as food, using multiculturalism. Postville, Iowa is where techniques in practice since pre-Columbian more than 300 Hasidic Jews, plus hundreds times. of Mexicans, Guatelmalans, Ukrainians and Video Cassette ( 13 min.) Russians have taken up residence in the QK 494.5 P66 P55 last decade. This program explores the struggles and rewards of the social and A Place in the Sun. economic changes. Films for the Humanities (1992) 1 videocassette (60 min.) In 20 years, four million Italians F630.A1 P67 2001 entered the U.S. While all immigrant groups were disdained by those who had come, Prejudice: Answering Children's Italians especially suffered. Many became Questions. poorly-paid laborers, but others made good. ABC News (1992) Video Cassette ( 52 min.) Peter Jennings leads an investigation E 184 I8 P53 of prejudice. Video Cassette (1 hr. 15 min.) Please Vote For Me. BF 723 P75 P72 First Run Features, 2007 Two males and a female vie for office. Prejudice: Causes, Consequences, They indulge in low blows, character Cures. assassination and gestures of goodwill, all McGraw Hill (198?) while gauging their standing with voters. The Focuses on thought provoking setting is a third-grade class at an research concerning prejudice against elementary school in the city of Wuhan in women and specific racial, national, and central China. Chronicles a public school's ethnic groups. first open elections. Video Cassette ( 24 min.) 1 videodisc (58 min.) BF 575 P9 P73 HQ784.P5 P54 2007 Presenting Mr. Frederick Douglass. Portrait of Castro's Cuba. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Ambrose (1991) (2003) Pt. 1: Cuba is in the 32nd year of its Fred Morsell recreates Douglass's revolution. The main goals were met: better famous speech, The lesson of the hour, on housing, health care, and education. The slavery and human rights. state provides all basic needs and demands 1 videodisc (60 min.) unswerving obedience. (46 min.) E449.D75 P73 2003 Pt. 2: 50% of the revolutionaries are young now and have experienced no other Preserving a Way of Life: People of the life other than that of Cuba under Castro. It Klamath. remains to be seen how change in the New Day Films (1989) global world will affect this island. Can Cuba A 76 year old Karuk Indian teaches a survive if economic support from its socialist young Karuk how to make drums and partners ends? (45 min.) soapstone pipes. Reveals the history and 2 Video Cassettes philosophy of the Karuk Indians. Guide (19 p.) Video Cassette ( 28 min.) F 1788 C3 C37 E 99 K7 P45

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The Price You Pay. The Promised Land. Crosscurrent (1988) The Discovery Channel (1995) Provides a look at problems faced by Take Me to Chicago: from Jim Crow Southeast Asian refugees in the U.S. as laws to the advent of the mechanical cotton they create new lives for themselves. picker -- rural Southern blacks had plenty of Video Cassette ( 29 min.) reasons to listen to the traveling blues HV 640.4 U54 P75 musicians with their songs of far-off Chicago and the promise of a better life. Pride & Prejudice: A History of Black Strong Men Keep A-Comin’ On: Culture in America. Chicago gets its first African-American Knowledge Unlimited (1994) mayor. Integration bears fruit, as many Describes how African Americans families move out of the ghetto to middle- struggled to create a cultural identity in the class success. Those who made the U.S. and the impact that culture has had on journey examine what was attained. all Americans. A Dream Deferred: a rural people Video Cassette ( 28 min.) become an urban one. Cultural and political Guide (21 p.) gains are offset by overcrowding and E 185 P75 increasing ghettoization of African- Americans. The Primal Mind. 3 Video Cassettes ( 90 min. ea) Cinema Guild (1984) E 185.6 P76 vol. 1-3 Identifies the distinctions between Native American and Western cultures. Promises. Explores the two cultures contrasting views Promises Film Project (2001) of nature, time, space, art architecture and Explores the Middle East conflict dance. through the eyes of seven Palestinian and Video Cassette ( 58 min.) Israeli children between the ages of nine E 98 P5 P75 and thirteen in the West Bank and in Israel. 1 videocassette (106 min.) Prince among slaves DS119.7 .P76 2001 PBS Home Video, c2008 The true story of Abd al-Rahman Pueblo People's First Contact. Ibrahima Ibn Sori, a West African prince who PBS (1990) was sold into slavery in 1788, eventually A search for the Pueblo people's view ending up in Natchez, Mississippi. of their first encounters with European 1 videodisc (58 min.) civilization, told exclusively through the E444.I25 P75 2008 voices and visions of the Pueblo Indians. Video Cassette ( 26 min.) The Prize of the Pole. E 99 P9 P895 First Run/Icarus Films, c2006 Documentary of Inuit Hivshu a.k.a. Q’eros. Robert E. Peary II quest to trace the story of Mystic Fire Video (1993) his great grandfather while coming to terms Life and hardships of the Andean with his own ethnic identity. nomads called the Q'eros. Film describes 1 videodisc (78 min.) their means of subsistence, their rituals and E99.E7 P75 2006 beliefs, and the pattern of discrimination they have undergone. Video Cassette ( 53 min.) F2230.2.K4 Q47 1993

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Qeros: The Shape of Survival. Race and Ethnicity. Mystic Fire Video (1993) RMI Media Life and hardships of the Andean Shows the difference between nomads called the Q'eros. Film describes prejudice, discrimination, and racism using their means of subsistence, their rituals and historical and current examples. Explores beliefs, and the pattern of discrimination the effects of prejudice and discrimination they have undergone. through the eyes of Asian, Hispanic and 1 videocassette (53 min.) African American families. F2230.2.K4 Q47 1993 Video Cassette ( 30 min.) E 184 A1 R233 A Question of Color. California Newsreel (1992) Race and Intelligence. Confronts color consciousness in the Tony Brown Prod. (1994) black community. Explores the effect of a Tony Brown discusses the effects of caste system based on how closely skin race on intelligence with author Frances color, hair texture and facial features Cress Welsing. conform to a European ideal. Video Cassette ( 28 min.) Video Cassette ( 58 min.) BF 432 N5 R332 E 185.625 Q47 Race, Hatred, and Violence: Searching Quilombo Country. for Solutions. Quilombo Films (2006) Human Relations Media (1991) Provides a portrait of Examines some of the complex rural communities in Brazil that were either issues behind racism. Events surrounding founded by runaway slaves or began from two examples of racial violence are abandoned plantations. This type of explored. Provides some concrete ways to community is known as a "Quilombo", from lessen racial tensions. an Angolan word that means "encampment." Video Cassette ( 22 min.) As many as 2,000 quilombos exist today. Guide (14 p.) 1 videodisc (73 min.) E 185.61 R232 F2659.N4 Q55 2006 Race movies: The Popular Art of the Rabbit Boss. Black Renaissance. University of Nevada, Reno (1995) Anacostia Neighborhood Museum? On site footage and historic photos [1985?] and film show the rabbit drive of the Washoe Illustrates the history of African- Indians of the Sierra Nevada. American movies and their struggle to get Video Cassette ( 26 min.) their real place on the American screen. E 99 W38 R32 1 videocassette (19 min., 16 sec.) PN1995.9.N4 R33 1985 Race and Class in Black America. National Public Radio (1981) Race: The Floating Signifier. Debates the relative importance of Media Education Foundation (1996) race and class distinctions in affecting black A lecture on race and the meaning of people's futures. Excerpts from a racial signifiers. Classroom ed. conference at the University of Pennsylvania Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) on "The declining significance of race.” HT 1521 R23 Cassette E 185.86 R22 Race: The Floating Signifier. Media Education Foundation (1996) A lecture on race and the meaning of racial signifiers. Reference ed. Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 25 min.) HT 1521 R232

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Race: The Power of an Illusion. Reconstruction: The Second Civil War. California Newsreel (2003) Paramount Home Entertainment, c2004 Episode one explores how recent The story of the tumultuous years scientific discoveries have toppled the after the Civil War during which America concept of biological race. Episode two grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to questions the belief that race has always successfully bring the South back into the been with us. It traces the race concept to Union and at the same time, how former the European conquest of the Americas. slaves could be brought into the life of the Episode three focuses on how our country. institutions shape and create race. pt. 1. Revolution / produced and 1 videodisc (168 min.) directed by Llewellyn M. Smith ; telescript by GN269 .R327 2003 Llewellyn M. Smith ; story by Elizabeth Deane and Patricia Garcia Rios ; editor, Racism. Randall MacLowry Films for the Humanities (1996) pt. 2. Retreat / produced and directed Examines the civil rights movement in by Elizabeth Deane ; written by Elizabeth the U.S. and looks at South Africa's history. Deane and Patricia Garcia Rios ; co- Covers the most appalling crimes against produced and co-directed by Patricia Garcia humanity committed under racist Rios ; editor, Peter Rhodes justifications. 1 vide odisc (ca. 175 min.) Video Cassette ( 48 min.) E668 .R434 2004 HT 1521 R323 Recordar: To Remember. Racism 101. Other Pictures (1989) PBS (1988) A film about three generations of a Tracks an increase of racism and Mexican-American family living in the violence on America's campuses. Midwest in the 1980s. Castel interrogates Columbia, Smith, Swarthmore, Purdue, his family about the history of their arrival to Dartmouth, and Harvard are among the the U.S., their Mexican culture, their loss of troubled institutions. facility with Spanish language, and the Video Cassette ( 58 min.) duality of their Mexican and American LC 2781.7 R33 cultures. A portrait of an ethnic family that, due to the pressures of assimilation, slowly Radioactive Reservations. lost its cultural ties to its homeland. Filmakers Library (1995) Video Cassette ( 29 min.) Tribal leader Ron Eagleye Johnny E 184 M5 R35 travels to four Indian reservations to discuss with the inhabitants their negotiations with Redefining Racism: Fresh Voices from the U.S. government to place Monitored Black America. Storage Retrieval sites for radioactive waste PBS (1997) on their land. Probes the deep chasm between Video Cassette ( 52 min.) black and white Americans and the E 78 W5 R33 increasing hostility towards whites felt by a vast number of African Americans. Ralph Ellison's King of the Bingo Game. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) PBS Home Video (2000) E 185.615 R377 Ellison writes about a struggling young black man who frequents the local bingo game in depression-era Harlem and experiences a new sense of control over his destiny. Video Cassette (30min) PS3555.L625 K532 2000

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Remember Africville. The Right to Be. Indiana University (1991) Filmakers Library (1994) In the early 1960s, City Council Harriet Skye, a 61 year old Lakota authorized the demolition of Africville and woman journeys back to her people to the relocation and dispersal of its residents. investigate what has happened on the Through interviews with former residents reservation since she left. Shows the Sioux and excerpts from a 1989 conference that Tribal Council in session, the private Sweat reevaluated the relocation decisions, this Ceremony, and the "Spirit Program" at the film asks hard questions about urban Community College. renewal. Video Cassette ( 27 min.) Video Cassette ( 35 min.) E 99 D1 R613 F 1039.5 H17 R44 The Right to be Mohawk. The Return of Navajo Boy. New Day Films (1989) Berkeley Media (2001) Documents the Mohawks' The resurfacing of a decades-old film determination to not only survive, but to reunites a man and his family and explores grow and build their nation in spite of radioactivity problems on the Navajo continuous pressures to assimilate. reservation. The original film, Navaho boy: Video Cassette ( 15 min.) the Monument Valley story, produced by E 99 M8 R53 Robert J. Kennedy, chronicled the Cly and Begay families. The new film, Return of The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Navajo boy, juxtaposes the families' lives California Newsreel (2000) now and then. The current film also explores Discusses race relations in America the effects of uranium exposure from the between the Civil War and the Civil Rights mines on the Navajo Nation on the health of Movement. Documents the context in which the Navajo people. It documents the the laws of segregation known as the "Jim return/reunion of John Wayne Cly, a Navaho Crow" system originated and developed. boy, taken as a child by missionaries around Program 1. Promises betrayed 1960 from his Navajo family. (1865-1896) 1 videodisc (57 min.) Program 2. Fighting back (1896-1917) E99.N3 R47 2001 Program 3. Don't shout too soon (1917-1940) The Ride to Wounded Knee. Program 4. Terror and triumph Cinnamon Productions(1992) (1940-1954) The record of a journey on horseback, 4 videocassettes (56 min. each) taken by a group of Lakota Indians in E185.61 .R57 2002 programs1 -4 December, 1990 across South Dakota. The ride is more than a challenging test of The River That Harms. physical endurance, it is a spiritual quest, Educational Film & Video Project (1987) which allows each rider to come in contact About a 1979 radioactive waste spill with the spirits of his ancestors. The ride into the Puerco River and how it affected the commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Indian Village at Church Rock, New Mexico. Battle of Wounded Knee. Video Cassette. ( 45 min.) 1 videocassette (86 min.) TD 812 R5 E83.89.R53 1992

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The Road to Brown. Road To 9/11. California Newsreel (1989) PBS Home Video (2006) The story of segregation and the legal "This dramatic assault on it which launched the Civil Rights documentary chronicles the deep historical movement. Plunges the viewer into the roots of Al-Qáida, examining the years of world of Jim Crow, constructed in the South political oppression, economic stagnation, after the Civil War to rob former slaves of religious fanaticism, and violence that gave their new rights. Charles Houston launched rise to the attacks of September 11. 2002. It a number of unprecedented cases which features rare footage, and insightful targeted segregated education. commentary by leading scholars and Video Cassette ( 50 min.) journalists including Bernard Lewis, Fareed E 185.61 R63 Zakaria, Thomas Friedman, Irshad Manji, Azar Nafisis, Kanan Makiya, Fawaz Gerges, The Road to Jenin. and David Fromkin"—Container. Landmark Media (2003) 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) Did a massacre at Jenin take place? HV6432.7 .R63 2006 This documentary explores the tumultuous events of April, 2002 during the Israel Robben Island: Our University. Operation Defensive Shield. Interweaves Lindy Wilson Prod. (1988) candid Palestinian and Israeli interviews with A film about the reunion of former archival footage to recount in detail the key South African political prisoners Fikile Bam, events of the Jenin battle. Addressing Neville Alexander, and Kwedi Mkalipi. They Palestinian accusations and Israeli recall their long prison experiences. explanations head on, this documentary Video Cassette ( 55 min.) establishes the details of this highly charged DT 1948 R63 incident. 1 videodisc (52 min.) Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo. DS119.765 .R62 2003 WGBH Educational Foundation [200-?] Story of a Muslim girl and a Serbian Road to Las Vegas: A Black Perspective. boy who fell in love. They were killed trying Real to Reel (1984) to escape from Sarajevo. Discusses the migration of Blacks to 1 videodisc (84 min.) Las Vegas from the 1940s on, why they DR1313.32.S27 R65 2000z came primarily from Fordyce, Arkansas, and Tallulah, Louisiana, how they have adapted The Roots of Prejudice and Intolerance. to Las Vegas, and how they have developed Jaguar Educational (2002) extended family relationships which provide "Examines the historical roots of continuity and tradition. prejudice, the different forms it takes, the Video Cassette ( 30 min.) psychology behind prejudicial thinking, and F 849 L35 R63 the difference between prejudice and intolerance" – Container. 1 videodisc (30 min.) BF575.P9 R66 2002

Roots of Resistance. PBS (1989) Recounts the little known story of black America's secret railroad to freedom through narratives of escaped slaves. Viewers listen to interviews with descendents of slaves and slaveholders, describing personal danger and risks involved in each slave's departure. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) E 450 R66

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Running on the Edge of the Rainbow: Sacrifice. Laguna Stories and Poems. Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey : Film Library Norman Ross Publishing (1998) Storyteller/writer Leslie Silko shares "Each year thousands of girls are stories and poems with friends and reflects recruited from rural Burmese villages to on the nature of Laguna storytelling, its work in brothels in Thailand where they are functions, and some of the problems she held for years in debt bondage. The has faced using Laguna. trafficking of Burmese girls is a direct result stories in her own work. of political repression in Burma. Human Video Cassette (28 min.) rights abuses, war, and ethnic discrimination E 99 L2 R85 have displaced thousands of families leaving them with no means of livelihood. This film, Sacred Earth. through interviews with the girls, examines Cinema Guild (1996) the social, cultural and economic forces at Documents the plight of landless work in the trafficking of these Burmese peasants in Guatemala. They describe their girls."--Container exploitation by agricultural developers and 1 Video Cassette (48 min.) repression by the military. HQ242.55.A5 S22 1998 Video Cassette ( 54 min.) F 1435.3 A37 T54 Salsa. Harcourt Films (1988) Sacred Games: Ritual Warfare in a Maya The opening scenes show the Village. importance of music for the community. University of California Extension Media Respected Latin musicians are shown Center (198?) interacting at important community events. Every year thousands of Maya Also explores the interplay between Salsa Indians gather to celebrate Carnival, the and various political and cultural currents in "festival of games." This film was made the Latin community. over a ten year period and captures the Video Cassette ( 50 min.) mystery of the Chamula Carnival, its pre- ML 3475 S35 Columbian imagery and references to numerous military invasions. The Sand Creek Massacre. Video Cassette ( 59 min.) Films for the Humanities & Sciences, F 1435.3 R3 S22 [2007] Told from the perspective of Native Sacred Places. Americans, this film examines the 1864 A&E Television Networks (2006) massacre, when Colorado troops Throughout the course of history, human slaughtered over 400 Cheyenne and beings have built incredible monuments and Arapaho people under their protection. mysterious buildings to mark the passing of 1 videodisc (22 min.) time, to track the movements of the E83.863 .S36 2007 heavens, and to honor and glorify their gods and kings. In this program, "Ancient Sarah Winnemucca. mysteries" takes a globe-spanning journey Women of Diversity Productions (2001) to some of the most extraordinary and Excerpts from the life of Sarah moving of these famed sites. From the Winnemucca Hopkins, a Paiute woman who massive temples at Machu Picchu to the was a leader of her people. megalithic statues on Easter Island, this is Video Cassette ( 35 min) an up-close look at some of humankind's E99.P2 S27 2001 most impressive achievements. Learn how and why these monuments were created, and discover the latest findings and theories with leading archaeologists and scholars. 1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) BL580 .S23 2006

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Sarah Winnemucca: A Capital Figure. Savagery and the American Indian. Nev. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, [2002] Films for the Humanities & Sciences Describes efforts by Nevada (2000) Department of Cultural Affairs and Nevada Describes the impact of white Women's History Project to place statue of settlement on the American Indian. Sarah Winnemucca in the National Statuary Part 1 covers the period from 1620- Hall Collection in the United States Capitol 1890 when the Indian population had fallen building. Includes interviews with Sally from 5 million to 250,000. Traces the Zanjani, Sarah Winnemucca's biographer expansion of white settlement; the resultant and Louise Tannheimer, a member of the depletion of the native peoples and the way Winnemucca family. Sarah Winnemucca in which contemporaries recorded the was a Paiute woman who worked to improve events. the conditions of her people in the 19th Part 2 traces developments since century. 1890 when the Indian reservations were 1 videocassette (28 min.) established and the residual tribes were E99.P2 S272 2002 compulsorily moved into them. The program talks of the native peoples efforts to retain Sarah Winnemucca Statue Dedication. more of their own culture in the face National Cable Satellite Corp. government endeavors to assimilate them, (2005) and the resultant cultural and social A video of the dedication problems. of the Sarah Winnemucca statue in National 2 Video Cassettes (1 hr 41 min) Statuary Hall in Washington D.C. on March E77 .S283 2000 9, 2005. Includes remarks by Sen. Harry Reid, Rep. Jim Gibbons, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Say My Name. Rep. Dennis Hastert, Sen. Bill Frist, Sen. Women Make Movies, 2009 John Ensign, Governor Kenny Guinn, and "In a hip-hop and r&b world Senate chaplain, Barry Black. dominated by men and noted for misogyny, 1 videocassette (35 min.) the unstoppable female lyricists of SAY MY E99.P2 S28 2005 NAME speak candidly about class, race, and gender in pursuing their passions as Sarah Winnemucca: The Dream Fulfilled. female emcees. This worldwide Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs, documentary takes viewers on [a] vibrant c2005 tour of urban culture[s] and musical Gives an overview of the Sarah movement[s], from hip hop's birthplace in Winnemucca statue project from its the Bronx, to grime on London's Eastside beginnings with the Nevada Women's and all points Philly, Detroit, Chicago, History Project, through the dedication Atlanta, and L.A. in between ... Delves into ceremony at the National Statuary Hall on the amazing personal stories of women March 9, 2005 to the Carson City dedication balancing professional dreams with the stark on April 6, 2005. Includes an interview with realities of poor urban communities, race, the artist, Benjamin Victor. sexism, and motherhood, as the more than 1 videodisc (29 min.) 18 artist featured in [the film] battle for a E99.P2 S285 2005 place in a society that creates few chances for women. From emerging artists filled with new creativity, to true pioneers like MC Lyte, Roxanne Shante, and Monie Love, these are women turning adversity into art"-- http://www.wmm.com/filmCatalog/pages/c75 4.shtml. 1 videodisc (75 min.) ML394 .S29 2009

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School Colors. The 2nd American Revolution. WGBH Educational Foundation (1994) Corp. for Entertainment & Learning Looks at a turbulent year at Berkeley (1982) High School in California. Focuses on Pt. 1 Recreates & dramatizes the teachers, students, and parents struggling world of Blacks from 1900-1920. Looks at with the question of whether diversity will the lives of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. enrich American society or tear it apart. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Jack Johnson, Video Cassette (1 hr. ) Langston Hughes, and many more. LD 7501 B47 S36 Pt. 2 Tells the story of how the New Deal, World War II and postwar social Science or Sacrilege: Native Americans, changes set the stage for the 1954 Supreme Archaeology, & The Law. Court decision that sparked a decade of University of California Berkley (1996) continuing nonviolent revolution, leading to Examines the Native American the Voting Rights Act. Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 56 min.) Looks at underlying moral and political E 185.615 S42 pt. 1-2 issues, its practical consequences and the prospects for science in the post-NAGPRA The Secret Life of Geisha. world. A&E Television Networks (2005) Video Cassette ( 57 min.) A look inside the world of the geisha E 98 M8 S35 including tales of sexual treachery and suicide and their role in the fall of a Scottsboro: An American Tragedy. hierarchy of political leaders as recently as PBS Home Video (2001) 1989. In 1931, two white women stepped 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to GT3412 .S43 2005 make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on a train. So Secularism: The Turkish Experience. began one of the most significant legal fights Omer Baristiran (2004) of the twentieth century. The trials of the Explores the history of secularism in nine young men would draw North and Turkey. South into their sharpest conflict since the 1 videodisc (110 min.) Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme BL2747.8 S43 2004 Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement. Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min)) KF224.S34 S36 2001

Sea Island Sketches. National Public Radio (1981). Describes the culture and lifestyles of the Gula people, descendents of African slaves now living on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina. Cassette E 185.93 S7 S42

Seasons of a Navajo. PBS (1988) Captures the traditional lifestyle of the Navajo family as viewers meet Chanucey and Dorothy Neboyia who maintain their existence by farming, weaving and tending sheep in a hogan. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) E 99 N3 S43

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Sentenced Home. Separate Visions. Distributed by Center for Asian American University of California Berkeley Media (2007) Profiles four pioneering Native The video portrays 3 immigrant men American artists: Baje Whitethorne, a who arrived in the United States as refugees Navajo painter, Brenda Spencer, a Navajo from Cambodia in the '80s. After fleeing the weaver, John Fredericks, a Hopi kachina Khmer Rouge and settling in Seattle as carver, and Nora Naranjo-Morse, a Santa children, each was drawn into gang life, and Clara sculptor. ultimately jail. According to U.S. law they Video Cassette ( 40 min.) should have been deported, but Cambodia N6538.A4 S47 1989 did not accept deportees at the time of their sentences. After September 2001, the U.S. Sermons and Sacred Pictures. pressured Cambodia into changing its University of California Center for Media policy. As a result, thousands of individuals (1991) were separated from their families and Profiles the life and work of Reverend returned to a land that many barely knew. L.O. Taylor, a black Baptist minister from Many deportees faced the prospect of Memphis. Combines his films and audio paying a double penalty: having already recordings with images of contemporary served their original prison sentences and Memphis neighborhoods and religious moved on with their lives, they now faced gatherings. A record of black American life deportation. in the 1930s and 1940s. 1 videodisc (76 min.) Video Cassette ( 29 min.) E184.K45 S46 2007 TR 140 T38 S47

Seoul Train. Shackled Women. New Day Films, c2008 Films for the Humanities & Sciences "Today, there are an estimated (2004) 250,000 North Korean refugees living "Program assesses second- and underground in China. They escaped a food third-world abuses of women's rights by the crisis and other persecutions at home that male establishment and examines how have claimed the lives of approximately 3 female collaboration sometimes contributes million in the past 10 years. The Chinese to their perpetuation"--Container. Government -- in direct violation of Videodisc (41 min.) international laws to which it's a party -- HQ1236.5.D44 .S53 2004 systematically arrests and forcibly repatriates hundreds of these refugees each The Shallow Well Project: The Spirit of month. Defecting from North Korea is a the Navajo. capital offense, and repatriated refugees Museum of Modern Art Film Library face human rights abuses ranging from (198?) concentration camps and torture to forced Two of a group of films made by abortion and summary executions. For a Navajo Indians living in or near the lucky few refugees, however, there is hope. community of Pine Springs, Arizona. They A group of multinational activists has taken it were taught how to use the equipment, and upon themselves to create an Underground they chose the subjects and aspects of Railroad. Via a network of safe houses and themselves they wanted to express. The first escape routes, the activists -- at great film is about the digging of a water well. The personal risk -- help the refugees on daring second is about the preparations for a escapes to freedom over hundreds (and healing ceremony--gathering plants, making sometimes thousands) of miles of Chinese sand paintings, etc., and also shows the territory"—Producers. ceremony itself. 1 videodisc (ca. 54 min.) Video Cassette ( 55 min.) HV640.5.K67 S46 2008 E 99 N3 N3599

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The Shape of Water. Silent Choices. Kum-Kum Bhavnani, c2006 New Day Films, c2007 Follows the efforts of women political Illustrates the abortion issue through activists in four developing countries (Brazil, the lives of African American women, with India, Israel & Senegal) to effect positive both interviews and dramatic content. change. Features the personal experiences of 1 videodisc (70 min.) several such women, some of whom chose HQ1236.5.D44 S534 2006 to have abortions, and some who are staunchly pro-life. The film also brings in The Sheepeaters: Keepers of the Past. others active in the African American Earthtalk (1990) community on abortion issues, as well as Tells the story of a group of reclusive juxtaposing African American viewpoints to Shoshone-speaking Indians who inhabited those of white Americans, all combined and the Plateau in Yellowstone at the time when contrasted with the larger economic, the first white men visited the area. political, and social pressures that are faced Video Cassette ( 30 min.) by the African-American community in E 99 T85 S54 general. 1 videodisc (60 min.) Ships of slaves: The Middle Passage. HQ767.5.U5 S35 2007 A&E Television Networks : distributed by New Video (1997) Singing Pictures: Women Painters of Details the trials and tribulations of Naya. the slaves on their voyage from Africa to the Documentary Educational Resources Americas on slave ships. (2006) Video Cassette (48 min) Documentary about an organized HT1048 .S55 1997 group of women scroll painters from the village of Naya, India, chronicling their lives The Shirt. and how they are adapting their art to reflect Toronto, Canada : [Distributed by] Vtape current social issues as well as traditional (2003) themes addressed in their scrolls. The Silent film with musical women discuss the social, political and soundtrack that alternates showing religious issues that inform their art and women wearing shirts with comments on influence their daily lives, and how they are how Native Americans have been treated responding to the changing conditions in with scenery, especially of rivers. their communities. 1 Video Cassette (5 min., 55 sec.) 1 videodisc (40 min.) PN1995.9.E96 S52 2003 DS432.J84 S66 2006

The Shores of Africa Sitting Bull: Chief of the Lakota Nation. Films Media Group (2007) A&E Home Video : distributed by "This two-part series provides an New Video (1995) economic, political, and cultural portrait of Portrait of Sitting Bull, who led African life, focusing on the countries the Lakota Sioux to victory over General located along the eastern and western Custer at Little Big Horn. shores of the continent. Each program Video Cassette (50 min) analyzes the dynamics of trade, language, E99.D1 S62 1995 religion, geography and history that have given Africa its present and evolving shape"—Containers. [disc 1] Africa's east coast ( 53 min.) [disc 2] Africa's west coast (ca. 53 min.) 2 videodiscs (ca. 106 min.) DT14 .S55 2007

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The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Slave Island. Chiapas. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cinema Guild (1996) (2004) Chronicles the 1994 uprising led by Examines the excavation of an 18th the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. century slave cemetery called the African Portrays an epic confrontation pitting Burial Ground in downtown Manhattan. It is impoverished Indian peasants against large the oldest slave cemetery ever found in landowners and government forces in North America. Scholars and leading Mexico's poorest state. experts conduct archaeological and forensic Video Cassette (56 min.) analyses of the remains of nearly 400 F 1256 S58 African Americans slaves who were forced to serve either the Dutch West India Skin Deep. Company or English masters. Uses dramatic Iris Films (1995) reenactments, early maps, and documents (Producer) Filmmaker from slave traders to piece together the Frances Reid follows students from the history of slavery in the city of New York. University of Massachusetts, Texas A&M, 1 videodisc (49 min.) Chico State and U.C. Berkeley to a E445.N56 .S56 2004 challenging racial awareness workshop where they confront each other's innermost Slavery and the Making of America. feelings about race and ethnicity. Ambrose Video Pub (2004) 1 videodisc (53 min.) This program examines the E184.A1 S613 1995 history of slavery in the United States and the role it played in shaping the new Skinheads: The Pathology of Hate : country's development. Soldiers of the Race War. v. 1. The downward spiral Films for the Humanities & Sciences, v. 2. Liberty in the air 2004 v. 3. Seeds of destruction A film crew follows the U.S. white v. 4. The challenge of freedom supremacist skinhead group The Aryan 4 videodiscs (240 min.) National Front over a two-month period. E441 .S53 2004 v. 1 - 4 Marches, demonstrating against non-whites, meeting with the Ku Klux Klan, and Slippin': Ten Years With the Bloods interviews with the group's leader, Bill Kino International (2007) Riccio, explain the Nazi-inspired group's Documents the exploits of a group of motivation African-American gang members through 1 videodisc (54 min.) the mean streets of South Central LA for ten HV6439.U5 S55 2004 years after the 1992 LA race riots. Delves into the ongoing Blood/Crip gang war to reveal the short and brutal lives of LA street gangstas and the tragic personal toll that the gang life takes on families and friends. As the years and the bodies pile up, the boys grow into men and the high-wire allure of street life gives way to the harsh realities of survival. 1 videodisc (84 min.) HV6439.U7 S54 2007

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Small Happiness. Soul of the Samurai. Long Bow Group (1984) The Cinema Guild, c2005 A look at the lifestyle and social "The time of the Samurai in ancient conditions of women in the village of Long Japan was unique and violent; a life filled Bow, located about 400 miles southwest of with tradition, honor, and legend. With Beijing, where tradition holds that male unique 3D animation, ancient Japanese children are Great happiness and female woodblock prints come to life. The Soul of children are Small happiness. the Samurai is the story of their life and of a Video Cassette ( 58 min.) culture unfamiliar to most of the Western Guide world"—Container. HQ 1768 S63 1 videodisc (46 min.) DS827.S3 S68 2005 Snakeheads: The Chinese Mafia and the New Slave Trade. Speak of Me as I am: The Story of Paul Downtown Community TV Center (1994) Robeson. Examines the lives of Chinese who Films for the Humanities & Sciences pay smugglers or "snakeheads" to smuggle (1999) them to the United States. Also discusses This program, featuring Sidney Poitier possible solutions. and Harry Belafonte, presents an overview 1 videodisc (38 min.) of the life of Paul Robeson-- star athlete, HV6453.C7 S62 1994 world-renowned singer and actor, political activist and Communist sympathizer. Solving Black Inner-City Poverty: William Features interviews with academic experts Julius Wilson. and contemporaries such as Studs Terkel, Films for Humanities (1994) Martin Duberman, Pete Seeger, and Oscar Bill Moyers interviews Dr. William Brown, Jr. Julius Wilson who discusses the problems of Video Cassette ( 59 min.) the inner city, the underclass, and public E 185.97 R63 S64 policy in the United States. Video Cassette ( 30 min.) Spear of the Nation: The Story of the HV 4045 W54 African National Congress. Films for the Humanities Something Left to Do: Elders of Sto:lo Provides background and perspective Nation. on the ANC, its objectives, and its leaders. Terra Nova Films Video Cassette ( 52 min.) Presents the Stalo people's social DT 1177 S64 lives, their own cultures, religious heritages and rituals at Stolo Indian reservations in The Speeches of Malcolm X. British Columbia. Shows how aged Stalo MPI Home Video (1997) people adapt their old lives in this changing Presents a collection of the Black society. Muslim and leader of the oppressed, Video Cassette ( 24 min.) Malcolm X's speeches, showing the E 99 S72 S64 development of his ideas and attitudes. Presents a collection of Malcolm X's A Son of Africa. speeches, showing the evolution of his ideas California Newsreel (1996) and attitudes. Olaudah Equiano's narrative of the 1 videocassette (41 min.) first widely read slave autobiography. BP223.Z8 L5775 1997 Reveals the social and economic context of the 18th century slave trade. Video Cassette ( 28 min.) HT 869 E6 S65

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The Speeches of Nelson Mandela. Spirit of the Dawn. MPI Home Video (1995) New Day films (1994) The speeches of Nelson Mandela, Traces the history of Indian education who has fought against apartheid and been in the U.S. and the experience of the Crow president of the African National Congress Indians in Montana, in particular. and President of South Africa, offer a Video Cassette (1/", 29 min.) demonstration of his oratory prowess. E 96 S65 1 videocassette (70 min.) DT1974 .S74 1995 Spirits Rising. NAATA Distribution (1996) The Speeches of Sitting Bull. A program about women in the MPI Home Video (1997) Philippines and their journey from pre- Lakota Sioux medicine man and chief colonial priestess to president of the Sitting Bull, who led the Lakota, Cheyenne, republic. and Arapaho who defeated Custer at Little Video Cassette ( 56 min.) Bighorn, speaks about his disappoinment HQ 1757 S65 over the injustices faced by his people both before and after Little Bighorn, greets the The Split Horn: The Life of a Hmong exiled Chief Joseph in Canada in 1876, Shaman in America. confronts Senator John Logan about the Filmakers Library (2001) U.S. government's lack of acknowledgement Shows the life and culture of a Hmong of the tribe's complaints, and speaks just shaman and his family living in Appleton, before his arrest as a result of the Ghost Wisconsin. Discusses his struggle to Dance. maintain his traditions while his children 1 videocassette (35 min.) embrace American culture. E99.D1 S64 1997 Video Cassette (56 min) E184.H55 S65 2001 Spice Island Saga. Mystic Fire Video (1988) States of Unbelonging. The Blair Brothers embark on a 2,000 New Day Films 2006 mile journey through the Spice Islands in Blending experimental and search of the Bird of Paradise. They documentary styles, this film offers a portrait encounter storms, doldrums, sultans, of Israeli filmmaker Revital Ohayon, transvestite priests, pearl divers and python murdered in a terrorist attack with her two hunters. children while on a West Bank kibbutz. Video Cassette ( 58 min.) Director Lynne Sachs accompanies images DS 632 B85 R55 and symbols with a running spoken narrative of Sachs' own efforts to capture and Spirit Doctors. understand Ohayon's story. Filmakers Library (1996) 1 videodisc (63 min.) Follows three healers going about PN1995.9.J45 S73 2006 their daily work among Mexican-Americans in the lower Rio Grande Valley of southern The Status of Latina Women. Texas, where the folk healing tradition still Films for the Humanities (1993) flourishes. Looks at the differences between the Video Cassette (30 min) U.S. Latina and her Latin American and RZ407 .S65 1996 American counterparts. Examines how Latino men regard successful Latina women, shared child-rearing responsibility, and two income families. Profiles a Latina feminist. Video Cassette ( 26 min.) E 184 S75 S75

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Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen. Stop the Flow: Analyzing the Causes of Blackstarmedia, c2008 EU Immigration. A documentary that explores the lives Films for the Humanities & Sciences, of six Black transgender men living in the c2007 United States through the intimate stories of This program reports on initiatives their lives as artists, students, husbands, taken by the European Union to improve fathers, lawyers, and teachers. conditions in Africa and the Middle East 1 videodisc (79 min.) thereby reducing the number of job seekers HQ77.95.U6 S75 2008 entering the European Union. Spotlights human rights, fair trade, global war on The Stolen Eye. poverty, role of the private sector and California Newsreel (2004) frustrations of the young unemployed Jane Elliott conducted her famous foreigners, uses Morocco as a case study. blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise in 1 videodisc (26 min.) discrimination in Australia with the whites JV7590 .S76 2007 and Aborigines. 1 videodisc (52 min.) Stories From a Small Planet. BF575.P9 S76 2004 Distributed by PBS Video, c2008 Mexico, crimes at the border: In a Stolen ground. joint project with the New York Times, StirFry Seminars & Consulting, 2008 Frontline/World correspondent Lowell A human face is put on the lingering Bergman investigates the business of effects of racism and a rare view of Asian- human smuggling across the busy ports of American men directly and openly entry between Mexico and the United addressing racism's impacts is given when 6 States. In Tijuana, masses of people attempt Asian-American men meet over dinner and to cross illegally every day with the help of share their experiences and perspectives of increasingly organized and expensive racism and what it has taken from their smugglers. generation. During dinner, and in their Guatemala, the secret files: After reflections afterward, a seldom- seen portrait thirty years of bloody civil war, Guatemala is of the so-called "model minority's" pain, still recovering and its citizens look for traces anger, and anguish is revealed. of missing people who were "disappeared." 1 videodisc (44 min.) Clark Boyd reports on the discovery of the HT1521 .S716 2008 historical archive of the National Police who served under Rios Montt's government, an Stone Dream. archive that contains masses of papers that Documentary Educational Resources document the human rights abuses of the (2006) secret police. Focuses on the life of Liu Pi-Chia, a Mozambique, guitar hero: Reporter Taiwanese farmer and subject of the first Marjorie McAfee follows popular musician Taiwanese observational documentary in Feliciano Dos Santos as he travels 1965. Shows his life in the farming village he throughout his native Mozambique with his helped create as part of a land reclamation band, Massukos, singing songs that teach team, and the social and economic villagers about good hygiene and sanitation. conditions of the Taiwanese, while touching His work has resulted in building over 300 on the issues of national and ethnic identity. ecological latrines, which reduce disease 1 videodisc (79 min.) and produce fertilizer at the same time. DS799.4 .S86 2006 Stricken with polio as a child, Santos wants to prevent others from contracting life- threatening diseases. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) JV6475 .S76 2008

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Stories From Cuscatlan. Strange Fruit. Icarus Films (1989) California Newsreel (2002) A film on El Salvador that allows 3 A history of the anti-lynching protest ordinary families to recount their own history song Strange fruit made famous by Billie along with their feelings about their country Holiday. Includes footage of Billie Holiday and lives. Presents an in-depth view at a performing the song. Also examines the peaceful, agrarian way of life that seems to history of lynching and the forces that gave be vanishing. rise to the civil rights movement. Video Cassette ( 52 min.) 1 Video Cassette (58 min.) F 1488.3 S76 ML3561.S87 S73 2002

Stories of Change. Streets on Fire. Future Educational Films ; Harriman, NY Insight (1994) New Day Films [distributor], (1991) Latino youth (current and ex-gang "Video profiles four ethnically diverse members) speak about their lives on the women - Hispanic, Caucasian, Vietnamese front edge of society. Gang prevention and African-American - who surmount the leaders, community activists and youth trauma of deep personal loss and emerge leaders talk about steps taken to stop the with confidence, strength, and a renewed killing and to search for new solutions to end sense of purpose. These portraits explore violence. the issues of alcoholism, drug abuse, Video Cassette ( 32 min.) domestic violence, death and grieving, as HV 6439 U62 C27 well as problems faced by refugees Video Cassette (58 min) The Struggle for Native American Sovereignty. (The) Story of America. Pacifica Tape Library (1975) Distributed by Questar, c2008 Excerpts of confrontations between Combines historical footage, period Indians and white Americans at several artwork, dramatic re-enactmants, and places in the U.S. with emphasis on the historical commentary to present the story of occupation of Pine Ridge Reservation, America. South Dakota. pt. 1. Presidents of a new nation (70 Cassette min.) / produced by NBC News E 78 S63 S77 pt. 2. Presidents of a national struggle (80 min.) Style Wars. pt. 3. Presidents of a world power (85 Public Art Films (1987) min.) Looks at the youthful subculture that pt. 4. Headline stories of the 20th gave rise to subway graffiti "writing". century (105 min.) Explores the underground worlds of White, pt. 5. The century that made Black, and Latino teens who reveal their American great (180 min.) motivation and methods for creating works pt. 6. Great Indian leaders and with spray paint. nations (110 min.) Video Cassette ( 59 min.) E178 .S8652 2008 pt.1-6 GT 3913 N72 N447

The Strange Disappearance of the Anasazi. A&E Television Networks (1999) This documentary explores the antiquities, dwellings, history, and origins of the Anasazi and their disappearance from the American Southwest. 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.) E99.P9 S77 1999

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Suicide Bombers: Inside the Minds of Los Sures. Failed Martyrs. Cinema Guild (1983) Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Five of New York City's residents (2006) describe their lives in the poorest Puerto "In a series of powerful and Rican neighborhoods. revealing interviews from inside Israeli Video Cassette ( 58 min.) prisons, this Wide Angle documentary F 128.68 W5 S87 examines the motives of Palestinian suicide bombers. A recruiter, a bomb builder, and Surviving Columbus. three failed suicide bombers captured by PBS (1993) Israeli security forces speak openly of their Chronicles the Pueblo Indians' training, motivation, operational 450 year struggle to preserve their culture, methodology, and profound belief in the idea land and religion despite European contact. of entering paradise as a shahid - a martyr Begins with the emergence of a flourishing for Islam. They discuss their hatred of Jews culture at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. and Israel, their determination to die, and Video Cassette ( 2 hr.) the personal motivations that have E 99 P9 S87 influenced them - including a failed love, a sense of personal revenge, the frustration of Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song. living under the Israeli occupation, and envy Xenon Pictures (2002) for the prosperous Israeli lifestyle. In Presents the story of a professional addition, Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al- sex-show stud who kills two white policeman Quds University, speaks with anchor Mishal who are beating up a black youth. Stars Husain"—Container. members of the black community. 1 videodisc (60 min.) Video Cassette (97 min) HV6433.I75 S84 2006 PN1995.9.N4 S84 2002

Summer of the Loucheux. Tales from Arab Detroit New Day Films (1990) Olive Branch Productions (1995) Every July fourth generations of a Story of cultural conflict and resilience Loucheux family meet at their summer camp in the largest Arab community in North to prepare dry fish for the winter. This film is America. about their values, self-esteem, and Video Cassette ( 45 min.) traditions. F574.D49 A657 1995 Video Cassette ( 29 min.) E 99 K84 S84 Taxi to Timbuktu. First Run/Icarus Films (1994) The Sunrise Dance. A documentary about the Mali village Filmakers Library (1994) of Batama and the migrant communities it Shows the ancient, sacred Apache has spawned abroad as the men of Batama ceremony, The Sunrise Ceremony. search for jobs. Focuses on 13 year old Maureen Nachu Video Cassette ( 50 min.) who marks her passage from adolescence HC 1035 Z7 B37 to adulthood with the ceremony. Captures the rituals of the Medicine Man, the purification rites in the “Sweat Lodge”, and the midnight appearance of the “Crown Dancers.” Video Cassette ( 28 min.) E 99 A6 S86

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Texas Majority Minority. This Far By Faith. Anne Lewis, 2004 Cinema Guild (1991) "Despite years of disenfranchisement, The story of courageous Mississippi the Latino and African American Delta catfish processing workers, mostly communities in Lockhart, Texas, are fighting African American women, who won one of back -- registering voters, running for local the most significant civil rights labor victories office, organizing the first ever MLK day of the 80s. march in their community. Texas majority Video Cassette ( 29 min.) minority shows how important voting is -- not HD 5325 F6752 1990 I53 only in determining elections but also in preventing political apartheid in Texas"— This Far by Faith: African-American Container. Spiritual Journeys. 1 videodisc (20 min.) + 1 leaflet PBS Video (2003) JK4890 .T49 2004 Documents the African-American religious experience during the last three That Was Happy Life. centuries from the early African slaves, University Nevada Reno (1993) through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim For more than 1,000 years Pyramid Crow, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Lake has been the homeland of Paiute Era, and into the 21st century. Explores the people. Their world changed forever with struggle of African-Americans in their faith the coming of Euroamericans in the late and how it became a force for social, 1840s. Katie Frazier, born in 1891, tells political and cultural change in the United about her life and the "old ways" she lived States. as a child. Episode 1. There is a river Video Cassette ( 28 min.) Episode 2. God is a Negro E 99 P2 T43 Episode 3. Guide my feet Episode 4. Freedom faith That's Black Entertainment. Episode 5. Inheritors of the faith VCI (1989) Episode 6. Rise up and call their An underground film industry names developed in the black community in the 6 videocassettes (360 min.) 30s. These black cast films were never BR563.N4 T46 2003 intended to be viewed by white audiences. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) Three Stages of Latino Life. PN 1995.9 N4 T43 Films for the Humanities (1993) Follows a Mexican-American mother These Girls = El-Benate Dol. through the final stages of pregnancy and Women Make Movies (2006) the birth of her fifth child; examines the Follows a band of teenage girls living replacement for the traditional milestones on the streets of Cairo. which mark maturity among Latino youth; 1 videodisc (68 min.) observes how modern-day Latinos adapt HQ1793 .T44 2006 traditional mourning customs with new strategies. Thieves of Time. Video Cassette ( 28 min.) PBS (1992) E 184 S75 T47 Traces the history of our country's fascination with Indian burial grounds Tierra o Muerte: Land or Death. through 500 years of cultural, scientific and KBDI-TV (1991) legal change. Tells of the emergence of History of Tierra Amarilla land grant new relationships between Native and the fight of the heirs to the Chama Americans, scientists, and the museum Valley of northern New Mexico for property community resulting from recent legislation rights and economic and cultural survival. governing the ownership and study of our Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) nation's past. HD 211 N6 T54 Video Cassette ( 30 min.) E 77.9 T45

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Tierre Madre, Terre Sacree. Tireless and Unremitting: The Chinese Cinema Guild (1996) and Nevada's Railroads. Examines the conditions of Mayan Nev. Dept. of Cultural Affairs, 2003 farmers in Guatemala, their fight for land Features historian Dr. Sue Fawn rights and the persecutions they suffered. Chung of Las Vegas as guest host Video Cassette ( 54 min.) describing the contributions made by the F 1435.3 A37 T54 Chinese who came to Nevada in the 19th century to build the Central Pacific Railroad. Time of Fear. Includes visit to archaeological dig in Verdi PBS Home Video (2005) and tour of exhibit "Tireless and unremitting" In World War II, more at Nevada State Railroad Museum and than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were statements by Shirlaine Kee Baldwin and forced into relocation camps across the US. Gary Hines. This film traces the lives of the 16,000 1 videodisc (28 min.) people who were sent to two camps in HE2751 .T57 2003 southeast Arkansas, one of the poorest and most racially segregated places in America. To be Old, Black, and Poor It explores the reactions of the native Films for the Humanities (1994) Arkansans who watched in bewilderment as Shows what it means to be black, their tiny towns were overwhelmed by this poor, and elderly in the U.S. Documents the huge influx of outsiders. Through interviews life of Leonard and Sarah Bass, an elderly with the internees and local citizens, the black couple. Records their struggle to program explores how it affected the local survive, as well-meaning neighbors and communities, and the impact this history had opportunities come and go. on the issues of civil rights and social justice Video Cassette ( 58 min.) in America then and now. HQ1064.U5 T58 1994 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) D769.8.A6 T53 2005 To Live is Better than to Die. Filmakers Library (2003) A Time Remembered. "This is a heartbreaking story from Churchill Media Wenlou, a small village in central China, Depicts the life of the Japanese where 60% of the villagers are infected with American fishing community of Terminal HIV. There are at least 250,000 people in Island in Los Angeles Harbor, whose 3,000 seven provinces in central China who were residents were evacuated and sent to infected as a result of a blood donor Manzanar internment camp. program in the early nineties. Impoverished Video Cassette ( 42 min.) peasants sold their blood to clinics that used D 769.8 A6 T54 unsanitary gathering methods"—Container. 1 videocassette (60 min.) Tina in Mexico. RA643.86.C6 T65 2003 Bullfrog Films (2002) Portrait of photographer To Live with Terror: The Unsolved Tina Modotti in revolutionary 1920s Mexico. Attacks in Buenos Aires Looks at her work and her passionate University of California Extension Center relationships with contemporary artists and for Filmakers Library (2002) revolutionaries, including Edward Weston In the 1990s there were two terrorist and Diego Rivera. attacks against the Jewish community in 1 videodisc (60 min.) Buenos Aires, both of which faded quickly TR140.M58 T55 2004 from the memory of the international community. This film uncovers the lackluster investigations conducted by the Argentine government and exposes the layers of official corruption as well as the pervasive anti-semitism in Argentina 1 Video Cassette (57 min.) F2849.2 .T6 2002

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To Love, Honor and Obey. The Trail North. Filmwest Associates [distributor] (2001) KPBS TV 15 San Diego (1983) "Through the tragic and insightful Anthropologist Robert Alvarez and his story of a young Sikh woman from Canada son Luis recreate the journey which their who was murdered for marrying the wrong family's ancestors made in coming north man, [this film] exposes how the cultural from Mexico several generations ago. practices of a country thousands of miles Offers a personalized view of the back and away have influenced Indo-Canadian forth movement of family members over the women and their freedom."--Container. course of several generations. 1 Video Cassette (45 min.) Video Cassette ( 28 min.) BL2018 .T6 2001 E 184 M5 T74

To Taste a Hundred Herbs. Tununeremiut. Long Bow Group (1984) Documentary Educational Resources A look at traditional Chinese folk (2006) medicine, along with an exploration of "Four sequences, filmed over a two- Chinese Catholicism as practiced by the month period, portray aspects of the lives of doctor of the village of Long Bow. the people of Tununak, a village on the Video Cassette ( 58 min.) southwestern coast of Alaska"--Container. Guide The first sequence is an evacuation of the RA 771.7 C6 T62 village during the Amchitka Island nuclear test, for fear the test might cause a tidal Touring China. wave. The second sequence is a fishing trip, Questar (1998) the third is a sudden ocean storm, and the Tour of Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, fourth is story-dancing in the community hall. West Lake, the Great Wall, Xi'an, Guilin, 1 videodisc (35 min.) Guangzhou (Canton), Shenzhen, Shanghai, E99.E7 T824 2006 and Hong Kong. 1 videocassette (ca. 68 min.) The Two Nations of Black America. DS712 .T68 1998 PBS (1997) A look at the success of the civil rights Traces of the Trade: A Story From the movement and the growing economic divide Deep North. in black America. California Newsreel, 2008 Video Cassette ( 1hr.) Filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers E 185.8 T96 that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Two Spirits She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle IndependentLens, 2010, c2009 Trade and gain a powerful new perspective Examines the role of two-spirit people on the black/white divide. in the Navajo culture in the context of the 1 videodisc (86 min.) story of a gay youth named Fred Martinez. HT985 .T73 2008 Martinez was a nádleehí or a male-bodied person with a feminine essence, who was Trading in Africans: The Dutch Outposts murdered in a hate crime at the age of in West Africa. sixteen. Discusses the traditional Native Films for the Humanities (1991) American perspective on gender and Looks at the European view of sexuality and the need for a balanced Africans in the mid-17th century, at the interrelationship between the feminine and nature of the slave trade, and at the life of masculine. some of the African tribes the Dutch 1 videodisc (54 mins.) exploited to build their businesses. E99.N3 T96 2010 Video Cassette (12", 50 min.) DT 476 F58

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Two Towns of Jasper. Uncommon Ground. PBS Home Video (2003) Bal-Maiden Films (1994) In 1998 in Jasper, Texas, James Follows the journey of five Los Byrd, Jr., a black man, was chained to a Angeles high school students to pickup truck and dragged to his death by Grahamstown, South Africa. They lived with three white men. The town was forever South African students in a black township. altered, and the nation woke up to the horror This diverse group of youth share their of a modern-day lynching. The filmmakers experiences with family, school, violence, set out to document the aftermath of the racism, and oppression. murder by following the trials of the local Video Cassette ( 57 min.) men charged with the crime. The result is an DT 1757 U53 explicit and troubling portrait of race in America, one that asks how and why a Under One Sky ..: Arab Women in North crime like this could have occurred. America Talk About the Hijab. 1 Video Cassette (ca. 83 min.) Films for the Humanities & Sciences HV6534.J363 T86 2002 (2000) Presents the history of Arab Turbans. womanhood, from the days of early colonial NAATA (1999) missions to the post-Gulf War era. Arab Based on the memoirs of the women living in North America describe the filmmaker's grandmother, this docu-drama ideologies behind the veil. explores the inner struggles of an Asian Video Cassette ( 44 min.) Indian immigrant family torn between their HQ1170 .U53 2000 cultural traditions and the desire for social acceptance. Members of one of the first Understanding Ancient North America. East Indian families to settle on the West Idea Channel (1992) Coast of America, the Singh boys were "Can physical archeology and the oral taunted for the turbans they wore, a tradition traditions of existing North Americans be sacred to their Sikh ancestors, that served brought together in the search for a better only to identify them as outsiders in the understanding of past cultures? Paul prejudiced landscape of Astoria, Oregon Zolbrod, Frederick F. Seeley Professor of circa 1918. English at Allegheny College and James Video Cassette ( 30 min.) Adovasio, Director of Anthropology and F885.S55 T87 1999 Archeology at Mercyhurst College, explore this potential linkage. In a 50-minute The Tuskegee Airmen. conversation, the two professionals discuss PBS Home Video (2004) the importance of and need for these two The story of an experiment -- "to sciences to come together in order to give see if Blacks had the intellectual and depth and dimension to past cultures"— physical ability to fly an aircraft in combat." Publisher. These pilots, trained in the "deep South," 1 videocassette (47 min.) became the Tuskegee Airmen, flying combat E77.9 .U53 1992 aircraft during World War II for their country. They battled on two fronts: against the Axis Understanding Race. powers in Europe and North Africa, and the Films for the Humanities racism at home. Examines the history and power of 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) the artificial distinction called "race", viewing D790.252 332nd .T87 2004 it within historical, scientific, and cultural contexts. Topics include the anthropological unity of Homo sapiens; sanctioned discrimination, such as segregation; cultural biases based on racial stereotypes; and the underlying humanity that inextricably links us all. Video Cassette ( 52 min.) GN269 .U53 1999

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Uneasy Neighbors. Unnatural Causes: --Is Inequality Making University of California Extension Media Us Sick? Center (1989) California Newsreel, c2008 Shows the living conditions, hopes "Unnatural causes sounds the alarm and fears of Mexican migrant labor families about the extent of our alarming socio- living in camps in north San Diego County. economic and racial inequities in health-and Video Cassette ( 35 min.) searches for their root causes. But those HD 1527 C2 U54 causes are not what we might expect... It turns out there's much more to our health Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and than bad habits, health care or unlucky Fall of Jack Johnson. genes. The social conditions in which we are PBS Home Video (2005) born, live and work profoundly affect our The story of Jack Johnson, who was well-being and longevity"--Producer's the first African American boxer to win the website. most coveted title in all of sports - 1 videodisc (ca. 236 min.) + 1 leaflet Heavyweight Champion of the World. RA448.4 .U56 2008 Includes his struggles in and out of the ring and his desire to live his life as a free man. Up the Yangtze. 2 videodiscs (220 min.) Zeitgeist Films, c2007 GV1132.J7 U54 2005 A "farewell cruise" takes a luxury ship up the vast Yangtze River shortly before The Unholy Tarahumara. completion of the massive Three Gorges Filmakers Library (1998) Dam. The passengers glimpse a rapidly Documents the ways of the changing countryside, while the local people Tarahumara Indians of Mexico. struggle to adapt as their lives are Video Cassette ( 56 min.) irrevocably altered. F 1221 T25 U54 1 videodisc (93 min.) + 1 leaflet DS793.Y3 U6 2007 + 1 leaflet Unnatural causes California Newsreel, c2008 Urban Tribe "Unnatural causes sounds the alarm University of California Extension Center about the extent of our alarming socio- for Media and Independent Learning economic and racial inequities in health-and (1997) searches for their root causes. But those African Americans discuss their causes are not what we might expect... It hairstyles while having their hair braided in a turns out there's much more to our health Chicago salon than bad habits, health care or unlucky 1 Video Cassette (54 min.) genes. The social conditions in which we are TT972 .U73 2000 born, live and work profoundly affect our well-being and longevity"--Producer's USS Constellation: Battling for Freedom website. A&E Television Networks (2006) 1 videodisc (ca. 236 min.) The year is 1859 and the African RA448.4 .U56 2008 slave trade has been illegal in the US for 50 years; still the practice continues. Through first person accounts from the journals of officers and sailors on the famous ship, the USS Constellation, experience the difficulty and dangers of pursuing the stealthy vessels known as "slavers" 1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) HT1048 .U77 2006

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Valentina's Nightmare. (A) Village Called Versailles. PBS (1997) New Day Films, c2009 Frontline looks back at the 1994 "A documentary about Versailles, a massacre of 800,000 Tutsis by the Hutu community in eastern New Orleans first majority in Rwanda and examines the settled by Vietnamese refugees. After country's struggle for justice and Hurricane Katrina, Versailles residents reconciliation. A survivor of the slaughter impressively rise to the challenges by tells her story. returning and rebuilding before most Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) neighborhoods in New Orleans, only to have DT 450.435 V34 their homes threatened by a new government-imposed toxic landfill just two Valuing Diversity: Multi-Cultural miles away. [It] recounts the empowering Communication. story of how this group of people, who has Learning Seed ; Mount Kisco, NY(1995) already suffered so much in their lifetime, A study of prejudice toward people turns a devastating disaster into a catalyst who are different. Viewers learn how to for change and a chance for a better decrease their discomfort in communicating future"—Container. with people from different cultures, social 1 videodisc (67 min.) classes, age groups, or physical disabilities. F380.V53 V55 2009 1 Video Cassette (19 min.) 1 guide (16 p) Viva La Causa. HM1211 .V34 1995 Collision Course Video Productions (1997) The Vanishing Family: Crisis in Black An introduction to the history of the America. Mexican American people from their origins Carousel (1986) in Europe's invasion of the American Focuses on the problems of Black continent up through World War II, through single-parent families in Newark, N.J. the Chicano Movement years to the present Moyers talks about teenage pregnancy, the day. Includes archival footage. role of welfare, and the changes in values pt. 1. De los tiempos antiguos a la among Black families. Segunda Guerra Mundial – Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 4 min.) pt. 2. De la Segunda Guerra Mundial E 185.86 V37 al presente 2 videocassettes (ca. 60 min.) Veils Uncovered. E184.M5 A162 1997 pts 1-2 Filmwest Associates, (2002) "Documents the reality of sexual Voices of Forgotten Worlds. competition among women in Damascus as Ellipsis Arts (1993) they vie for number one position, exclusivity Traditional music of indigenous with their husbands. Filmed in the people. marketplace of Souk Al-Hamidivyah, this is a 2 Cassettes personal account of the unexplored sexual Book (96 p.) world of women who live behind the veil. M 1627 V63 Islamic religious rules and their application in marriage are explained, the wide ranging Voices of Latin America. social dynamics are explored in marketplace WETA (1987) and in the lives of the women of Damascus. Uses dramatizations and interviews to 1 Video Cassette (25 min.) profile the lives of Garcilaso de la Vega, El HQ1727.5.Z9 D347 2002 Inca, Elena Poniatoruska, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Jose Marti, and Jorge Luis. The cultural identity of Latin America, its people and values are revealed. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) PQ 7081 Al S65

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Voices of the Orishas. A Walk to Beautiful. Berkeley, CA : Berkeley Media, (2006) WGBH Video, c2008 An ethnographic documentary on the A look at the lives of three Ethiopian practice of Santeria in Havana, Cuba, and women, rejected by their husbands and its roots in Yoruba cultural and religious ostracized by their communities, who leave heritage. Records a religious ceremony that home in search of seeking treatment for features dancing, singing, and drum beating obstetric fistula. The program follows them invoking the Orishas, and also separate walking for hours on their journey to dances representing the interaction of the transportation to a special hospital in Addis Orishas. Ababa where they find solace for the first 1 videodisc (38 min.) time in years, and stays with them as their BL2532.S3 V65 2006 lives begin to change. 1 videodisc (56 min.) Voodoo and the Church in Haiti. HQ1794.5 W35 2008 Transit Media, [200-?] "Western and African Walking the Line. cultures collide in Haiti resulting in religious Filmakers Library, c2005 conflict between Christianity and Voodoo. Explores the chaos of the border Despite centuries of vigilant opposition from crisis along the Southern Arizona region as the Christian Church, Voodoo has flourished experienced by Mexican migrants, private in Haiti and continues to be one of the citizens, vigilantes, and humanitarians. strongest elements underlying Haitian 1 videodisc (58 min.) culture. This film dispels Hollywood E184.M5 W35 2005 stereotypes and presents Voodoo as a belief system that has been passed down from Waorani: The Last of the Rain Forest African ancestor to slave to present day People. Haitian"—Container. Yeah But/Not Now Productions, c2005 1 videocassette (43 min.) "The Waorani have a reputation of being the fiercest warriors in the Amazon. BL2490 .V663 2000z They have never been conquered or

colonized. Since oil companies have entered Waiting for Fidel. their territory, the Waorani have made deals, Facets Video, [2004] *oil for a pack of noodles and two soccer An unlikely trio - filmmaker Michael balls*, deals in exchange for nothing. The Rubbo, Geoff Stirling, a millionaire Canadian Waorani will continue to struggle for their broadcaster and higher consciousness survival, but in order to preserve their seeker - and Joey Smallwood, a former homeland and culture they must, Premier of Newfoundland, travel to Cuba in paradoxically, adopt modern ways"-- a private jet. Their goal is to meet with Fidel Publisher's website. Castro and create a dialogue between him 1 videodisc (29 min.) and the United States. But Fidel never show F3722.1.H83 W36 2005 up. Michael Rubbo records each step of this wayward quest to meet the leader of Cuba, Warrior: the Life of Leonard Peltier. Fidel Castro. Cinnamon Productions (1991) 1 videodisc (ca. 58 min.) The story of Leonard Peltier, an F1788.2 .W35 2004 American Indian imprisoned at Leavenworth Penitentiary for allegedly murdering two FBI agents in 1975 at the Pine Ridge Reservation. Looks back at the violent confrontations at Wounded Knee and Pine Ridge in the 70's, and at today's Indian reservations, as well as Peltier's odyssey through the American justice system. 1 videocassette (85 min.) E93 .W37 1991

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Waterborne: Gift of the Indian Canoe. We Jive Like This. New Day Films (1989) Filmakers Library (1992) Documents a great revival as Captures the spirit and energy of the hundreds of tribal members participate in the dance, poetry, theater and music of South native art of canoe carving and rekindle the African townships. excitement of the canoe race. Makes the Video Cassette ( 52 min.) vital connection between canoe, water, fish, DT 1168 W42 and cedar. Video Cassette ( 14 min.) We Shall Overcome. E 78 W3 W367 California Newsreel (1988) Provides a history of the song, We Watsonville on Strike. Shall Overcome, and its influence on the Migrant Media Prod. (1989) civil rights movement. Looks at the 18 month cannery Video Cassette ( 58 min.) workers' strike which paralyzed the rural ML 3556 W42 town of Watsonville, Ca. Vivid scenes of workers demonstrating, debating strategy' We Shall Remain: A Native History of and confronting police are combined with Utah. interviews of the strikers --- mostly Latina University of Utah c2009 women. The Paiute / produced by Sally Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 5 min.) Shaum Brochure The Ute / produced by Nancy Green HD 5325 C272 1985-1987 W37 The Navajo / produced by Jeff Elstad The Goshute / produced by Carol The Way Home. Dalrymple World Trust (1998) The Northwestern Shoshone / Over the course of eight months, 64 produced women representing a cross-section of by Nancy Green cultures in America, came together to share 5 videodiscs (134 min.) their experiences of oppression through the E77 .W4152 2009 lens of race. Focuses on issues of race as they intersect with gender, class, and sexual We Shall Remain: America Through orientation. Native Eyes. Video Cassette ( 1 hr. 30 min.) PBS Home Video, c2009 Cassette "They were charismatic and forward Booklet (18 p.) thinking, imaginative and courageous, HQ 1237.5 U6 W38 compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful and reckless. For The Way West. hundreds of years, Native American leaders PBS Video (1995) from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tells the story of how the West was Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at from their lands and fought the extinction of Wounded Knee. their culture. Sometimes, their strategies 1. Westward, The Course of Empire were militaristic, but more often they were Takes Its Way diplomatic, spiritual, legal and political ... 2. The Approach of Civilization These five documentaries spanning almost 3. The War for the Black Hills four hundred years tell the story of pivotal 4. Ghost Dance moments in U.S. history from the Native 4 Video Cassettes ( 90 min. ea) American perspective, upending two- F 591 W38 episodes 1-4 dimensional stereotypes of American Indians as simply ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land"—Container. 3 videodiscs (394 min.) E77 .W415 2009 1-3

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A Weave of Time. What Does it Mean to Be White? Direct Cinema Limited (1990) Distirbuted by Microtraining Associates In 1938, John Adair filmed the (2004) Burnside family, creating a visual record of Through a series of interviews, Dr. Navajo life in the 1930s. This material is Sue defines white privilege and uses woven with footage of the Burnside family examples to indicate how white privilege today, documenting fifty years and four serves to keep Whites relatively oblivious to generations of change in one Navajo family. the opposite effect this has on persons of Video cassette ( 1 hr) color. E 99 N3 W42 1 videodisc (50 min.) HT1575 .W43 2004 W.E.B. Dubois of Great Barrington. PBS (1992) When the Fire Dims. Chronicles his life and New Day Films (1998) accomplishments as a pioneer in American Explores the social and psychological sociology. reality faced by many Native Americans, and Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) examines the complex relationship E 185.97 D73 W56 alcoholism, cultural alienation, colonization and urban existence play in one man's life Weekend Edition Sunday. as he struggles to survive this unknown NPR (1994) world. The story is told through Jimmy, a Includes a report on a master- Romo Indian who has left the reservation for apprentice program whereby Native promises of a better life in the city. Americans in California learn their Video Cassette ( 17 min.) languages from older members of their HV 5045 W44 tribes in order to preserve those languages. 2 Cassettes When You're Smiling. PM 501 C2 W44 tapes 1-2 University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning Western eyes (2002) First Run/Icarus Films, (2000) An account of the resettlement of the Examines the search for Japanese American community after beauty and self-acceptance through the internment during WWII, told through the experiences of a young Filipino and Korean filmmakers own family's struggle during the woman living in Canada who both believe harsh post-camp years. The community their appearance, specifically their eyes, seemed to put their unjust incarceration affect the way they are perceived. Both feel behind them but in reality, class, race, unsettled in Western society and are religion, stereotyping, lack of ethnic values, contemplating cosmetic surgery on their emotional and familial distance caused a eyes. Layering interviews with references to serious identity crisis. super models and other pop-culture icons of 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) beauty, the filmmaker captures the pain that D769.8.A6 W47 2002 almost always lies behind the desire for plastic surgery 1 videocassette (40 min.) RD119.5.E94 W47 2000

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White Light, Black Rain. With us or Against Us : Afghan- HBO Video (2007) Americans Since 9/11. In August 1945, the world was Filmakers Library (2002) transformed in the blink of an eye when When the Soviets invaded American forces dropped atomic bombs on Afghanistan in the late 1970's, many Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. The Afghans fled to the U.S. some settling in destruction was unprecedented and the Fremont, California which became the bombings precipitated the end of World War center of a community of 15,000 exiled II. Contains archival footage and stunning Afghans. After the terrorist attacks of photography. Interviews are from both September 11th, these Afghan-Americans Japanese survivors and the Americans who found themselves caught in a cultural believed that their involvement would help crossfire between their adoptive and native end a brutal conflict. land. Includes interviews with a variety of 1 videodisc (86 min.) individuals who tell what it means to be an D767.25.H6 W454 2007 Afghan in America today and includes a segment on the Fremont community who White Shamans, Plastic Medicine Men. fought to keep Taliban representatives from Native Voices Public Television (1995) taking over their mosque with their brand of Explores the popularization and fundamentalism. commercialization of Native American 1 Video Cassette (27 min.) spiritual traditions. E184.A23 W57 2002 Video Cassette ( 26 min.) E 98 R3 W45 Without Reservations: Notes on Racism in Montana. Why the Hate? Film Library (1995) Films for the Humanities & Sciences Addresses the questions of racism (2002) between Whites and Indians in a new and Discusses the mixed emotions felt by bold manner. many Muslins toward the United States. Video Cassette ( 28 min.) Topics on the agenda include American E 78 M9 W57 culture and U.S. foreign policy. Video Cassette ( 44 min.) When the Mountains Tremble. DS35.62 .W48 2002 Docurama (2004) Chronicles the true story of Nobel Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations. Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, who is a Kifaru Prod. (1992) Quinché Indian woman, as she stood up for Relates the story of how the Lakota her people and helped wage a rebellion in Nation mourned the loss of their loved ones, the wake of seemingly unconquerable and the sacred knowledge which died with oppression. Shot at the height of the heated them at Wounded Knee in 1890. The battle between the heavily-armed traditional Lakota ceremony, Washigila, Guatemalan Military and the nearly finally brought them out of mourning. defenseless Mayan population. Video Cassette ( 57 min.) 1 videodisc (83 min.) E 99 D1 W67 F1465.2.Q5 M3888 2004

With These Hands. Who Killed Vincent Chin? Filmakers Library (1987) New York : Filmakers Library (1988) Three women from three African Documentary on racism in working- countries tell of their struggle to feed their class America focuses on the murder of families. An account of Africa's slide into Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American, by Ron perpetual famine. Ebens, a Chrysler motors foreman, in a Video Cassette ( 33 min.) Detroit bar. Interweaves the story of the DT 14 W57 murder with social concerns and questions about justice. 1 Video Cassette (83 min.) E184.A1 W453 1988

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A Wok-in-Progress. Wonders of the African World. Filmakers Library (2000) PBS Home Video (1999) Paul Kwan, a Vietnamese immigrant, This documentary presents Henry tells his story of finding a new life in San Louis Gates, Jr. on a journey from Zanzibar Francisco while maintaining his cultural to Timbuktu, the Nile River Valley to Great connection through cooking, eating and Zimbabwe, the slave coast of Guinea to the sharing the rich and varied food of his native medieval monasteries of Ethiopia in search land. Includes a distillation of sensory of the lost wonders of the African world. perceptions surrounding food and its 1. Black Kingdoms of the Nile preparation. The Swahili Coast Video Cassette (56 min) 2. The Slave Kingdoms E184.V53 W63 2000 The Holy Land 3. The Road to Timbuktu Women of the Chicano Movement. Lost Cities of the South California State University, Los Angeles, 3 Video Cassettes ( 360 min) [2010?] DT 14 G3852 v.1-3 2 videodiscs (142 min.) F869.L89 W66 2010 Working with African American Clients. American Psychological Association Women Organize! (2005) Women Make Movies (2000) This video presents Dr. Thomas A. This film follows five women Parham, Assistant Vice Chancellor for organizers across the United States of Counseling and Health Services at the various backgrounds who are involved in the University of California, Irvine. He is a global struggles for racial, social, and licensed psychotherapist. His areas of economic justice. professional interest include African 1 Video Cassette (32 min.) American identity development and HQ1421 .W656 2000 multicultural counseling. This video is designed for clinical training and continuing The Women Outside: Korean Women and education for psychology students and the U.S. Military. practitioners. The video includes the use of Third World Newsreel, [2000] specific treatments with African Americans, Documentary on young South Korean a discussion between the host and the women who work in sex related enterprises therapist, an actual therapy session with a adjacent to American military bases in South real client, and a question and answer Korea. Also explores the lives of Korean exchange. American women who came to the United 1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) States as wives of American servicemen. RC451.5.N4 W67 2005 1 videodisc (52 min.) + 1 guide HQ1765.5 .W65 2000 + guide

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World of Diversity. Wylie Avenue Days. Pacific Grove, CA : Brooks/Cole, Pittsburgh Home Video (1991) (1994) Recaptures the heyday of Pittsburgh's Video 1 shows three campus Hill District from the 1930s-1950s. Includes incidents in which feelings are hurt, false the music clubs, the best Negro League assumptions are made, and friendships are baseball teams in America, church picnics, threatened due to cross-cultural family business and other elements of communication problems. Video 2 replays neighborhood life. the same scenes, providing alternative ways Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) to resolve conflict and improve F 159 P66 H55 communication skills. video 1. A world of difference : Yes, Ma’am. expanding your cultural awareness Filmakers Library (1982) (28 min.) Filmed in the stately mansions of New video 2. A world of difference : Orleans, shows the role of the black strategies for cultural awareness (28 domestic workers in keeping up the gracious min.) lifestyle associated with the old South. The 2 Videocassettes (56 min.) work is physically hard and poorly HM1211 .W67 1994 compensated. The maids have not had an effective labor organization. A World of Food : Tastes & Taboos in Video Cassette ( 48 min.) Different Cultures. F 379 N59 N4 University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, (2000) Yin-Shan: Silver Mountain. Examines some of the attitudes that KNPB Home Video (1993) make food a fascinating focus of powerful Tells of the successes and struggles cultural and individual differences. In this of the Chinese in early Nevada (1860- film food choices are divided into 7 primary 1915)....why they came, what they found, categories and a variety of individuals from the ways they prospered and how they various cultures and ethnic and religious maintained their culture in a foreign setting. affiliations are interviewed concerning what Video Cassette ( 23 min.) they are willing to eat and why. F 850 C5 Y55 1 Video Cassette (36 min.) GT2860 .W67 2000 Yo Soy. Cinema Guild (1985) Woven by the Grandmothers: 19th Examines the key issues, problems, Century Navajo Textiles. and concerns of the Mexican-American Home Vision Arts (1998) community in the United States, reviews the Celebrates the art of Native American progress Chicanos have recently made in women weavers who capture the rhythms of politics, education, labor, and economic Native life. Explores the 19th century development, and summarizes the ways Navajo textiles collection of the National they are responding to the challenges of the Museum of the American Indian and shows future. how contemporary weavers sustain their 1 videocassette (57 min.) communities' economies and culture. E184.M5 Y6 1985 Video Cassette ( 30 min.) E 99 N3 W668

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Young & Restless in China. Zeitgeist Films, c2008 Details the lives of nine ambitious young Chinese ranging from their late 20 to early 30's. Living in a society that is experiencing rapid change, the film looks at how these young professionals and workers are adjusting and looking for opportunities in the newly prosperous culture. 1 videodisc (106 min.) + leaflet HD8038.C55 Y68 2008

Your Loan Is Denied. PBS (1992) Examines how the discriminatory lending patterns of a generation ago still persist. Documents their devastating effects on racially mixed neighborhoods fighting for economic survival. Video Cassette ( 1 hr.) HG 3755 Y68

Zapatista. Big Noise Films (1998) Looks at the uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. Story of how a few thousand Mayan peasants have transformed the political culture of Mexico forever. 1 videodisc (55 min.) F1256 .Z26 1998

Zoot Suit Riots. PBS Home Video (2002) Racial tensions between the Anglo and Mexican American communities in Los Angeles, California erupted into violence after the conviction of Henry "Hank" Leyvas and seventeen other Mexican American youths for the murder of José Díaz in what was perceived as an unfair trial in 1943. 1 videocassette (60 min.) F869.L89 M58 2002

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun. California Newsreel, c2008 A biography of African American author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, the first black woman to enter the American literary canon. 1 videodisc (83 min.) PS3515.U789 Z98 2008

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